Example sentences of "the [adj] and [vb base] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Males should judiciously manipulate her throughout her life to suppress the latter and develop the former . |
| 2 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 3 | In November 1832 Nicholas sent an emissary to Turkey and Egypt to stiffen the resistance of the former and confront the latter with the prospect of Russian intervention . |
| 4 | Hopefully you will never be in this situation if you have made a realistic appraisal of your incomings and outgoings and taken measures to raise the former and reduce the latter . |
| 5 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 6 | That means that you will be able to run an application on a number of different processors and have it look the same and work the same on each machine . |