Example sentences of "[noun] over the former [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bank is taking court action over the former Tory Party chairman 's half a million pound overdraft . |
| 2 | American war planes will launch lightning strikes against the Serbs if they continue to breach the no-fly zone over the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 3 | Very few court orders , whereby the husband is to take a charge over the former matrimonial home , contain details of the specific provisions to be contained in such charge . |
| 4 | If the husband is to take a mortgage over the former matrimonial home , then , following usual conveyancing practice , his solicitors should draft and submit this to the wife 's solicitors . |
| 5 | THE Scottish champion , Peter Nicol , failed to repeat his recent league victory over the former British champion , Paul Gregory , and suffered a disappointing 3-0 defeat in yesterday 's first round of the British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 6 | He cited among other threats the loss of Russian central control over the former Soviet Union 's vast nuclear arsenal . |
| 7 | In the late 1940s integrationists had tended to desire a single federal political system , which at some point would entail a single act of abrogation of national rights to a supranational authority , whose precedence over the former national states would be constitutionally defined . |