Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [det] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high-end deskside Model 755 sitting above the existing Model 750 is likely to come with the same 100MHz 7100 processor as the 735 , but with expanded memory , disk and other peripheral options . |
| 2 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 3 | We can see from the latter 's evocative landscape , Figure with Birds , that , in Britain at any rate , Surrealism served to refresh the romantic imagination . |
| 4 | Hemming around the former 's minimal asymmetric couture with yards of decorative musing on fashion and identity , Wenders concludes that Yamamoto is n't just a designer but an author in cloth . |
| 5 | The Honorat regime had threatened to arrest members of the legislature if they tried to ratify the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Aristide , providing for the latter 's eventual return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] . |
| 6 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The constitutionalisation of the trade unions and the police refers to the former 's growing commitment to procedural settlements and closer political alliance to the Labour Party , and to the latter 's growing independence from local political control . |
| 9 | But it contrasts with the latter 's general emphasis on religion as an abortive form of protest by the underprivileged : ' … the sigh of the oppressed creature , the sentiment of a heartless world , and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people ! ’ |
| 10 | The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference . |
| 11 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 12 | Relations between Forsyth and the Secretary of State for Scotland , Malcolm Rifkind , had been strained during the former 's 14 months in office , and a number of senior party officials had resigned . |
| 13 | France , whose relations with China were already strained after the former 's strong criticism of the Tiananmen Square repression , defended the deal on the grounds that the vessels would be sold without armaments . |