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Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1	Richard Johnson in his essay on the early nineteenth-century radical educators emphasised the relationship between the activities of the latter and the tremendous social , economic and political changes brought about by the industrial revolution .
2	it like sends the thing down the old wiring and flicks the boiler off the same as with the heating once it gets up to temperature the boiler will cut off .
3	This inevitably results in the provision of a less than satisfactory service which , of course , confirms the low status and ‘ poor ’ image of the personnel function amongst other departments and divisions .
4	The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves .
5	This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former .
6	It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial .
7	In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought .
8	It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities .
9	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 .
10	Make evokes merely the idea of " producing an effect " ( = the event expressed by the infinitive ) , so that causation is represented as operating instant by instant throughout the actualization of the latter and the two events are felt to coincide in time .
11	It was a red-letter day for his supporters everywhere when , on 31 December 1720 , a son was born to James 's new young wife , in the presence of no fewer than 100 cardinals , ambassadors and other important witnesses ; clearly the charge of being a ‘ warming-pan ’ changeling was not going to be laid against Charles Edward .
12	Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 .
13	Walter Hallstein and the Netherlands were particularly critical of France , and the tension between the latter and the other five increased significantly .
14	But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission .
15	But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business .
16	Afterwards he dismissed the defeat as no more than ‘ irritating ’ and said he still had a good chance of winning the match .
17	There is some doubt about the circumstances of Molla Yegan 's death , to which reference will be made in due course , but it may be remarked here that while el-Kefevi is possibly right at least about the rough date of Molla Yegan 's death , the slightest suspicion attaches to the basis for his statement by reason of the fact that his words ( if not their order ) are practically identical with Taskopruzade 's statement about the death of Molla Taj al Din Ibrahim , known as Khatib-zade ( Hatibzade ) : Hatibzade and Molla Yegan are associated in an anecdote related by Taskopruzade in the biography of the former but included by el-Kefevi in the biography of Molla Yegan .
18	Most notably , ensuring that a few do not profit at the expense of the many and limiting foreign control of the economy are important concerns in Hungary , and will no doubt influence the law .
19	By the turn of the century Johannesburg was connected to the coast by no fewer than four lines .
20	When Harold Skimpole declares to him that ‘ The owners of such places as Chesney Wold … are public benefactors … good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men ’ , Sir Leicester receives the compliment as no more than his due .
21	Is the Opposition spokesman afraid that people will remember the days before the Government 's policy when political meddling led to huge overcapacity , massive losses and the closure of no fewer than three plants under Labour in Scotland alone ?
22	A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries .
23	Since Mexico 's central bank is committed to depreciating the peso by no more than 6.6% against the dollar in 1993 , and has $14 billion of reserves to back its commitment , these rates translate into an annual return for dollar investors of at least 8.5% .
24	This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow-cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place .
25	The lectures of the former and the associations of the latter appeared to be serving not only academic and economic purposes but also the promotion of political instability .
26	The return of the former when realized on sale represents a capital gain , and if untaxed would be much more attractive than interest payments which would be taxed as part of income .
27	Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year .
28	‘ Learning difficulty ’ is defined in the Act in a less than precise manner .
29	What environmentalists are saying is that change should not be made for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of many .
30	Instead , the vendor will normally seek undertakings from the purchaser only to operate the business in the same or a similar manner to the way it was operated before the sale .