Example sentences of "[be] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 2 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 3 | Currently in the workshops are the former Leisure Sport Vickers Viking replica BAPC.114 which is being restored as ‘ G–EBED ’ , Keith and Ross Smith 's back-up aircraft in their proposed round-the-world flight in 1922 . |
| 4 | The pieds noirs are the former French residents of the one-time French colonies of North Africa , in particular Algeria . |
| 5 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
| 6 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 7 | Most will be the former , with the cable running out from the fuseway in the consumer unit to supply a number of socket outlets on the ring , and then returning to the same fuseway . |
| 8 | In the absence of any words displacing those general provisions the answer must be the former . |
| 9 | The answer must be the former . |
| 10 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 11 | Without records management skills and principles it has been and could continue to be the former . |
| 12 | Ernie Simmons , of Tillsonburg , Ontario , acquired seven Swordfish from a base ( believed to be the former 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville ) in southern Ontario , shortly after they were removed from RCN strength . |
| 13 | It 's thought Fresden 's new owner may be the former racing driver Paddy McNally , who already owns a house in nearby Sevenhampton . |
| 14 | BY THE time these words are being read Frank Gray might be the former manager of mighty Darlington FC , this space 's favourite football team . |
| 15 | Firstly , we 've had a feasibility study on as to what should happen to Chipping Norton , and it has been proposed that it should develop eastwards and this would embrace the land which is owned by the County Council , being the former being the existing County Council smallholdings at Fowler 's Barn and Tank Farm , and also the William Fowler allotments , and it 's suggested that a relief road and ring road will run from the A three six one Burford Road to link up with the A forty four somewhere not far removed from Swingswang . |
| 16 | Taking their seats beneath their personal banners were the former socialist prime ministers Lords Callaghan and Wilson , the past Conservative cabinet ministers Lords Carrington and Hailsham , two departed governors of the Bank of England , a representative from the retired top brass of each of the services , two White Commonwealth knights , the explorers Lords Hunt and Shackleton . |
| 17 | The main casualties of the reshuffle were the former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , former Defence Secretary Tom King , and former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke . |
| 18 | Even though the ranks of labourers were thinner and the level of wealth higher than in the west , tinning was not unknown in eastern parts , though parishes containing tinners differed little from ones that did not : not only were the former only slightly poorer in East hundred , but in West and Trigg they were actually rather better off . |
| 19 | Among those executed , several of whom had been detained before the " coup attempt " , were the former Air Force commander , Maj.-Gen. |
| 20 | Present at the ceremony were the former Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega Saavedra , Negale Kisiliov , a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union , and Nelson Mandela , president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , who was presented with the Order of José Marti , Cuba 's highest decoration . |
| 21 | Although the PS generally backed Mitterrand 's prosecution of the war , two notable exceptions were the former Foreign Minister ( PS ) , Claude Cheysson , and the Defence Minister , Jean-Pierre Chevènement who resigned on Jan. 29 [ ibid ; see also p. 38299 ] . |
| 22 | Among the first countries to recognize Ukraine as an independent state were the former Soviet republics of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , other eastern European countries , Croatia , and Canada ( which had a large Ukrainian minority ) . |
| 23 | Its 120 passengers , among whom were the former Portuguese President António Eanes , and students , politicians and reporters from 21 countries , intended to lay a wreath at the site of the November massacre , the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili . |
| 24 | Also under discussion were the former Soviet Union 's foreign debt commitments . |
| 25 | Also accused were the former head of the state security police ( the Stasi ) , Erich Mielke , 84 , former Prime Minister Willi Stoph , 78 , former Defence Minister Heinz Kessler , 72 , his deputy Fritz Streletz , 66 , and the former regional party leader in Suhl , Hans Albrecht , 72 . |
| 26 | Among the critics were the former ministers Michael Jopling , Peter Bottomley , Michael Spicer and Tom King , as well as Winston Churchill . |
| 27 | Davies is the former face of Independent Television sport . |
| 28 | Sir Colin is the former head of export services at the Ministry of Defence , having been seconded in 1985 from British Aerospace |
| 29 | This is the former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle 's much-cherished parity run amok . |
| 30 | But 24 hours earlier , a flock of shrieking paparazzi had tailed them all over London ; because 40-year-old Mrs Koons , nee Ilona Staller , is the former Italian parliamentarian and porn star Cicciolina ( variously translated as ‘ the dumpling ’ , ‘ the plump one ’ and ‘ little pinchable one ’ ) , while her husband is the most talked-about artist since Andy Warhol . |