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

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1 The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered .
2 My hon. Friend said that the county council 's not looking after the elderly properly was a reflection of the will of Labour councillors .
3 In respect of the former there is a confusion between visualizing a shape and knowing its name .
4 In the former there is no appropriation , in the latter there is .
5 A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope .
6 The 1930s particularly was an era of cheap money .
7 The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth documented all these and showed that the higher an employee 's wages or salary , the greater too is the benefit derived from such schemes , not only in absolute amounts but in relative terms as well .
8 Currie — Along with the two above were the backbone of Armfield 's team .
9 What lay behind the urban strategy of the 1980s therefore was the discipline of the frontier , that most American of archetypes .
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