Example sentences of "the [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French Corps des Galères was suppressed in 1748 ; and by the time of the French Revolution , except for the few maintained by the Spanish fleet and one or two in the navies of the small Italian States , galleys had disappeared from the sea which they had so long dominated . |
| 2 | Christian was one of the few killed in the capture of Rangoon , which had come about more quickly than most of us expected . |
| 3 | Run by the few fell to the many , and |
| 4 | But this would be at a great price for the many to deal with the problems of the few . |
| 5 | The crucial social question raised by the zombies , relevant to all societies , capitalist or communist , is ‘ Why should the many work for the few ? ’ |
| 6 | I think that the whole business was just another gimmick to add to the many introduced to the Church over these last 20 years . |
| 7 | Llanthony Yard has been created at the museum as an example of a canal repair yard and has a layout typical of the many found around the canal system . |
| 8 | ( The latter led to the recent trial on manual diagnostic techniques using role induction which I mentioned earlier ) . |
| 9 | We can observe the experiences that an animal has , and what it does , and study how the latter depends on the former . |
| 10 | In theory the self-appraisal and inspection are complementary exercises and the value of the latter depends on the quality of the former . |
| 11 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 12 | Gradually , the latter prevailed over the former . |
| 13 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 14 | As well as these , there are the spiracular muscles and the epipleural muscles , the latter inserting on the subalare and basalare . |
| 15 | Note that I said ‘ do I want to be ’ rather than ‘ would I like to be ’ as the latter allows for the possibility of failure . |
| 16 | On the coat of arms over the main entrance of the College in Camden Town the dates shown are 1785–1937 : the latter refers to the year in which the new Camden Town buildings were royally opened . |
| 17 | The latter had for the moment deserted him . |
| 18 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 19 | The former relates to the interests of the consumer and producer , whilst the latter relates to the interest of the system as a whole — systemic interest . |
| 20 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 21 | Had not the latter fought in the mining camps from which they hailed , to reduce the number of enforced religious holidays which so depleted their incomes ? |
| 22 | At Stirling , he created the so-called palace block , with exteriors modelled on French palace architecture like those of Falkland and adorned with statues ranging from dignified sculpture to the grotesque — the latter seen in the splendid representation of the king himself . |
| 23 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 24 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 25 | The latter relate to the mailings for Christian Aid News . |
| 26 | The section applies to ‘ presenters ’ and ‘ directors , ’ but not to actors unless the latter depart from the script , in which case they become ‘ directors ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 27 | Paisley and Napier were the examples chosen , the latter pointing to the ‘ wholehearted acceptance by industry of CNAA degrees ’ , and emphasizing the difficulty of gaining course approvals . |
| 28 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 29 | Next he allied with Godegisel against the Burgundian king Gundobad , but the latter survived through the cunning of his minister Aridius . |
| 30 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) interpreted their results as implying that the pre-exposure procedure and the conditioning procedure establish independent memories and the ability of the former to interfere with retrieval of the latter declines over the retention interval . |