Example sentences of "[art] [det] [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure .
2 The latter is usually the syndicate leader bank which handles interest and loan amortisation payments .
3 The latter was properly the business of epistemology and to be excluded from the scientific practice of sociology .
4 The latter was probably a garden escape , and is not found wild in V.C. 110 today .
5 The latter was particularly the case with assistants allocated to named children with special educational needs in mainstream classes .
6 The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty .
7 He was a follower of William Pitt and an acquaintance of Dr. Samuel Johnson ; he advised his son , Samuel the Younger , while the latter was still an undergraduate , that ‘ the respectable way to get into Parliament was by invitation , not by contention ’ .
8 Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics .
9 The former is probably the case in the following : ( 71 ) When Agamemnon dares bring his concubine , the prophetess Cassandra , home from Troy , Clytemnestra kills them both and exults in full-bodied fury unfit for prudish ears .
10 The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure .
11 You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see .
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