Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temperature rise is registered in the former case by an attached or adjacent thermocouple that delivers its thermoelectric e.m.f. to a moving-coil voltmeter of suitable sensitivity . |
| 2 | Some support , however , is given to the former possibility by the fact that an equally well-defined Roman road also runs along the ridge , providing another possible line for the boundary ‘ surveyors ’ to use . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 4 | The report — from the City Research Project , which is chaired by the former chairman of the Securities Association , Stanislas Yassukovich — also says that the UK financial regulatory system has failed to focus adequately on fraud and misappropriation . |
| 5 | The Guardian 's piece is done by the former Middlesex fast bowler Mike Selvey . |
| 6 | Much of it is preserved in the former DDR and now , thanks to German re-unification and to a renewed appreciation of grandiose kitsch , this great self-styled ‘ Universalkünstler ’ of the German fin-de-siècle can now be rediscovered at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut . |
| 7 | The only even superficially attractive argument from the names in favour of his view is the implicit one that " Fenari-oglu " is used in the former case but not in the latter . |
| 8 | Princeton Diagnostic is headed by the former director of President Reagan 's Drug Abuse Policy Office , Mr Carlton Turner , along with a retired rear admiral and a self-described ’ international expert on toxicology ’ . |
| 9 | The view is endorsed by the former World Boxing Council lightweight champion , Ken Buchanan , the only British winner of the prestigious American award , the Edward J Neil Trophy For Boxing Excellence . |