Example sentences of "[verb] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 2 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 3 | To accommodate the former a whole range of speculative buildings appeared , largely the product of individual estimates of need and attempts at a quick profit . |
| 4 | Sheffield Wednesday are among those pursuing the former QPR player-manager . |
| 5 | Its leader , Mahmut Alinak , who in May had resigned from the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP — the junior party in the governing coalition ) said that he hoped that the OZEP would absorb the former Kurdish nationalist People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |
| 6 | They argue that Mrs Aquino can heal old wounds by allowing the former dictator to come home , at the same time disarming his supporters who scream that he is being done an injustice . |
| 7 | In particular , associations will also be formed between the context and the US , allowing the former to come to elicit , at least to some degree , the CR evoked by the nominal CS . |
| 8 | London-based Powercore International Ltd and Paris-based Isocor Corp have announced a joint technology agreement to enable the former 's Network Scheduler 3 workgroup product to operate as a native client application over Isocor 's suite of X400 messaging systems . |
| 9 | It is intended to restore the former baronial mansion to its original internal splendour as a clubhouse for the proposed 18-hole golf course . |
| 10 | 274 a Court of Appeal consisting of Parker and Bingham L.JJ. considered the apparent conflict between Reg. v. Lawrence and Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 and applied the former decision . |
| 11 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 12 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 13 | The Pakistani today plays the former British champion Geoff Williams for a place in the main draw . |
| 14 | Little can influence the former , but the new Shogun inspires the latter . |
| 15 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 16 | Let unc from the latter , postmultiplying by R1 , we have R2AR = R1 , and using the former , R2 = R1 . |
| 17 | Previously , using the former communist regime 's arrangements , taxes had been deducted from the total wage fund of each enterprise . |
| 18 | In using the former , however , it is sometimes difficult to explain how things are actually working at the moment they occur rather than understanding what we see in retrospect after some factor such as clouding of memory or change of opinion may have occurred . |
| 19 | Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence . |
| 20 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 21 | We have no difficulty in accepting the former … |
| 22 | On April 17 a Lebanese newspaper reported , citing Sudanese government sources , that the plotters had planned to reinstall the former President Jaafer al-Nemery and that the Cairo-based opposition umbrella group , the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) , had known of the plot and had sought to arrange a meeting between Nemery and Garang . |
| 23 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 24 | And in labelling the former causes ‘ accidents ’ , Plekhanov implies that they are both an unpredictable and a comparatively unimportant part of the explanation of the course of historical events . |
| 25 | Last night some Conservatives argued that government whips should demand that Mr Heseltine urge retreat on Sir Anthony , who has said he would like to see the former Defence Secretary and ardent pro-European lead the party . |
| 26 | John Parsons in Nice is saddened to see the former world No 1 humbled in another comeback attempt at the age of 35 |
| 27 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 28 | Stop at Wynau to see the rapids , and make a detour to the left , north of Langenthal , to see the former monastery of St Urban , which has a famous baroque church . |
| 29 | Males should judiciously manipulate her throughout her life to suppress the latter and develop the former . |
| 30 | Historically the balance between the " acute " and " Cinderella " services has favoured the former . |