Example sentences of "former to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 3 | Water travelled along well-made open stone drains 25 metres from the former to the latter , and from there into a vertical soak-away ( Plate 9 ) . |
| 4 | If , as suggested above , there is a similarity between the way cognitive social psychologists talk about categorization and the social representation theorists ' talk about anchoring , then the rhetorical critique can be extended from the former to the latter . |
| 5 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |