adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
communist
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Only recently have workers in the formerly Communist countries started to compete with workers in the first world for jobs and wages.
■ VERB
call
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TV/COM International is the company that was formerly called Oak Communications.
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The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court, formerly called a juvenile court.
hold
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Unlike his predecessors, Norvm had managerial experience, having formerly held the reins at Railway Sidings Malmo.
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The theory gained credibility when Lewis was elevated in October 1993 to president, a post formerly held by McColl.
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The northern Swanwic formed a very large domain, formerly held by the wife of Hugh Fitzgrip.
know
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Coberley Mill, formerly known as Cubberly, nestles deep in the valley, close to the village church.
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Pretty meaty stuff for an art history major who formerly knew squat about the squabble.
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Crest Hotel Formerly known as the Esso, this bright modern caravanserai has all the comforts and expected facilities.
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Prince, and the artist formerly known as, has long blurred the lines between divinity and getting down.
occupy
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A common thread to the sites throughout Britain, however, comes from plants originating in gardens that formerly occupied the sites.
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Much of the added land will consume an area formerly occupied by the 1, 000-foot-long Fleishhacker swimming pool.
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Further down is the factory formerly occupied by Bassett Lowke, the world famous model-making firm.
own
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She knew the château well, as her uncle and aunt had formerly owned it.
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Similar fates await buildings formerly owned by the secret police, which in many districts have been inherited by the local authorities.
use
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Vechey's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Churkin, 43, was formerly a deputy foreign minister.
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Clark County's major employer is Navistar International, formerly International Harvester Co.
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Milligan, 43, was formerly a deputy foreign minister.
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Peru was formerly ruled by the Spanish.
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The local school was formerly a hospital.
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Watkins was formerly editor of the Express, a local weekly newspaper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Forty-fifth to Fifty-sixth Streets, formerly dead ends at railway yards, became thoroughfares.
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He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father's collection in order to present them to the public.
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Linnaeus himself retained a dispersal of all species from a single mountain, formerly surrounded by sea.
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Participating mortgages, formerly thought to be unenforceable, can now be used.
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Puppies that could formerly avoid electric shocks, were unable to perform the avoidance responses after several months of isolation-rearing.
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The Triton inn was formerly a coaching inn, and is still providing meals and accommodation.