Example sentences of "the [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 2 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 3 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 4 | Newman was overwhelmed by the latter and wrote in The Sunday Times : ‘ Strictly speaking no art is translatable into another , not even poetry into music . |
| 5 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 6 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 7 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 8 | For both organisations , it offered continuation of an outstandingly successful project which had been initiated by the former and supported by the latter — both bodies had continuity as the central imperative . |
| 9 | Far from restraining the former and acting as a watchdog , the Assembly constantly urged the High Authority to make even greater supranational efforts . |
| 10 | Hence , no matter how competitive labour and commodity markets are ( Keynes assumed perfect competition in the former and allowed for a high degree of competition in the latter ) , imbalances between the supply of and demand for labour would not be rectified through spontaneous variations in the real wage rate . |
| 11 | The dissociation from each GC site is not the same but varies in a manner which must reflect the nature of the surrounding base pairs . |
| 12 | ‘ So you see , what with the Church never keeping adequate records and relying on the personal network all the time and the patronage system doing the same but relying on a different network , we 're all rather in the dark . ’ |
| 13 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
| 14 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |
| 15 | If the court order refers to matters other than the matrimonial home it is no doubt better to keep these extraneous matters private and to prepare an abstract ( and mark the same as examined against the original order ) of the relevant part of the court order . |
| 16 | The legal consequences are much the same as ensue on the dissolution of any firm or the departure of partners . |
| 17 | To live under an effectively working constitution is not the same as living under a regime of moral laissez-faire . |
| 18 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 19 | Diet : The food given to this fish is the same as given to the Emperor Peckoltia |
| 20 | Flying forwards is exactly the same as hovering in a wind except that you now have consciously to do things which you probably did automatically in the hover . |
| 21 | Some say that to belong to the kingdom of Heaven is the same as belonging to the Church . |
| 22 | They are not illustrated here , because the nature and extent of digestion are the same as illustrated for the first category . |
| 23 | This pattern is essentially the same as produced in the absence of actinomycin and confirms that at equilibrium insufficient drug is bound to the DNA to produce a footprint . |
| 24 | Ex exactly the same as going to the present day . |
| 25 | In some countries that 's virtually the same as going through a wedding service . |
| 26 | Erm , that is n't necessarily the same as saying by the way your section will have to repeat that saving in future years . |
| 27 | The equipment was the same as used on the Marton Vambac cars , which in itself was a British adaptation of the American PCC design . |
| 28 | ‘ Expenses are always the same as costs for a period . ’ |
| 29 | When this legislation is pushed through , we shall face exactly the same as happened with the poll tax . |
| 30 | This is as far as you can get from Cupitt 's picture of a reactionary , static super-tyrant [ in his Taking Leave of God ] always making sure the universe remains the same and conforms to the old unchanging laws . |