Example sentences of "to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 2 | The exotic shores of Trucial Oman , washed by the warm sparkling waters of the Persian Gulf , and rich in all the Arabian Nights romance of the Middle East , offer something unique in holiday experience to the get-away-from-it-all holidaymaker … |
| 3 | We take it to the self-same spot and detonate it . ’ |
| 4 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 5 | With respect to the latter , for example , women are no longer excluded from night duty and they perform a wider range of section duties than before . |
| 6 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 7 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 8 | It is to the latter process that I now turn . |
| 9 | My own study is indebted to Fanon 's analysis of how discrimination is internalized psychically and perpetuated socially between subordinated groups , classes , and races — what , in relation to the latter , he calls ‘ the racial distribution of guilt ’ ( Black Skin , 103 ) ; also to his realization of the way the demonizing of the other is , above all , a mercurial process of displacement and condensation , so fluid yet always with effects of a brutally material , actually violent kind . |
| 10 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 11 | For random instance , CBS/Fox has recently released ( £9.99 each ) not only Cronenberg 's 1986 The Fly and its far from negligible 1958 forerunner , but also the 1959 quick-buck sequel to the latter , Return Of The Fly , a collector 's item , though not necessarily in qualitative terms . |
| 12 | Earlier , Mr Karel Urbanek , the new party leader , had his first talks with Mr Havel and , according to the latter , backed the opposition 's call to rid the government of ‘ discredited figures ’ in favour of ‘ young , able experts ’ . |
| 13 | The pastor , Laszlo Tokes — reported by Human Rights workers to be in a remote village in the Romanian district of Salaj — belongs to the latter , Calvinist denomination . |
| 14 | Sir John suggested that if there was a clash in the allocation of resources between a credible level of nuclear deterrence and the necessary level of conventional forces , he , for one , would support giving priority to the latter . |
| 15 | All dolphins and porpoises belong to the latter group . |
| 16 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 17 | A mortgage of tangible property is made by a deed , which is called a Bill of Sale ; and , under the Bills of Sale Act 1882 ( as modified by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ) , it must be in the form given in the schedule to the latter Act , and attested and registered as required by that Act . |
| 18 | NOVEL-READING OF THIS SORT IS ESPECIALLY INJURIOUS TO THE GROWTH OF THE IMAGINATION , THE JUDGEMENT , AND THE MORALS , ESPECIALLY TO THE LATTER , BECAUSE IT EXCITES MERE FEELINGS WITHOUT AT THE SAME TIME MINISTERING AN IMPULSE TO ACTION . |
| 19 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 20 | One reaction to the latter in effect bemoans the absence of an Aristotelian plot : ‘ … |
| 21 | The 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee was the first recognized example of a Peleean eruption , a very different kind of phenomenon from the ‘ ordinary ’ Vesuvian or Plinian types , although Peleean eruptions often occur as short-lived side-shows to the latter . |
| 22 | A classic device for eliminating open conflict between two parties is to ask each to describe the other 's case , to the latter 's complete satisfaction . |
| 23 | In relation to the latter , the increased amount of year-round open water has caused the spread of several water-borne diseases into the rural population . |
| 24 | In relation to the latter , the reduced flow of fresh water into the estuary will allow the intrusion of salt water and thus affect biological productivity that will rebound on fisheries and the supply of water for industrial , agricultural and domestic use . |
| 25 | The fifth house from the left belonged to the latter . |
| 26 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 27 | Such an approach bas inevitably produced a bitty product — becoming bittier as we move from the early sections , which deal systematically with host pathogen interactions , to the latter third of the book . |
| 28 | With regard to the latter , it should be noted that many Glasgow deaf church members around that time were very religious and so strongly disapproved of drinking that they formed their own temperance Society , the Glasgow Mutual Improvement Society . |
| 29 | He snatched his gaze back to the latter . |
| 30 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |