Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [det] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 2 | OS/2 2.1 provides support for Wind ows applications with Object Linking and Embedding capabilities if they run in the same WIN-OS/2 session . |
| 3 | OS/2 2.1 provides support for Windows applications with Object Linking and Embedding capabilities if they run in the same WIN-OS/2 session . |
| 4 | No mention was made of the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , providing for the latter 's return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] . |
| 5 | ODDLY , the address file would not go into the address book application , for reasons ( I assume ) to do with the latter 's format demands . |
| 6 | This stems from the latter 's requirement that the shares must be freely marketable . |
| 7 | The shortfall was accompanied by a general reduction in Arab countries ' regular aid disbursements to Jordan , resulting in the latter 's appeal for more funds on May 28 , 1990 at the Arab League summit in Baghdad , the Iraqi capital [ see p. 37473 ] . |
| 8 | The passage below illustrates the stylistic interest of Golding 's novel : it deals with the prehistoric struggle for survival between homo sapiens and Neanderthal man , resulting in the latter 's extinction . |
| 9 | Elster 's critique of functionalism is largely based on the latter 's absence of an ‘ explanatory mechanism ’ between the structure at issue and its reproduction-enabling effects . |
| 10 | There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room . |
| 11 | The Béarnais of Pyrénées-Atlantique is the only purebred remnant of the original yellow-brown , pink-muzzled Pyrenean Blond , a breed which was otherwise absorbed by the Blonde d'Aquitaine ; indeed the Béarnais itself is registered in the latter 's herdbook . |
| 12 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
| 13 | his son worked in the same er place . |
| 14 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 15 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 16 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 17 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 18 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 19 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 20 | NHB undertook to return the funds to ANZ if an arbitration panel ruled in the latter 's favour . |
| 21 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 22 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |
| 23 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 24 | The difference between the old Keynesian and the new Keynesian approaches arises from the latter 's retention , albeit in radically modified form , of the notion of an equilibrium unemployment rate , and the former 's wholesale rejection of the usefulness of the NAIRU concept . |