Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn , however , the Japanese recaptured the airstrips , and an argument between Stilwell and Chiang led to the former being relieved of his command . |
| 2 | Erm life imprisonment should no longer be the automatic penalty for murder , that 's according to the committee chaired by the former er Lord er er former Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane . |
| 3 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 4 | On the twenty fifth of May , nineteen eighty one , the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum located in the former control tower , which is er now completely renovated , was dedicated by Major Horace United States Air Force , retired . |
| 5 | Whether he has any greater success in mounting a rebellion against Mr Heath 's former political secretary , Mr Hurd , than Mr Powell had against the former Prime Minister 17 years ago remains to be seen . |
| 6 | The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors . |
| 7 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 8 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 9 | The arguments propounded by the former group vary . |
| 10 | Despite its having been declared an open province at the end of 1988 [ see p. 36934 ] , anti-Indonesian agitation continued in the former Portuguese enclave of East Timor which was annexed after the invasion of 1975 [ see p. 27535 ] . |
| 11 | With the establishment of the communist People 's Republic in 1949 remaining Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fled to the former Japanese colony of Taiwan . |
| 12 | Wearing a flak jacket beneath his dark green anorak , Mr Major flew into the former Yugoslavia amid strict secrecy and high security . |
| 13 | Wearing a flak jacket beneath his dark green anorak , Mr Major flew into the former Yugoslavia amid strict secrecy and high security . |
| 14 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro signed three decrees and a presidential agreement on property rights on Sept. 9 in an attempt to defuse the most contentious issue facing her government — the estimated 4,600 claims for redress from owners of property and land expropriated under the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) regime between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 15 | Baker travelled from the former Soviet Union on Dec. 19 to Brussels , where he reported to the meeting there of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers . |
| 16 | The Davies injury occurred as the former U S and British Open champion was diving for a catch . |