Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure for the former was 17% and for the latter 13% . |
| 2 | More readily , for the former was n't censored . |
| 3 | Mrs Elizabeth Allen , manager of Peterborough Community Service , insists the first principle is ‘ to improve care for patients , not cut costs ’ , though the potential for the latter is also important . |
| 4 | They apply to both county and voluntary aided schools although the extent of change for the latter is less marked as the governing body was already the official employer of most staff at the school . |
| 5 | The importance of the former for the latter is not at all diminished by exhibiting languageless creatures that can associate across modes . |
| 6 | These should be considered together with pH , for the latter is the indication of the departure from neutrality . |
| 7 | No stamp duty will be payable if the consideration for the latter is less than £60,000. ( b ) Completion of the abstract In those cases where it is recited that the wife has married the new husband , a marked copy of the marriage certificate or marked abstract thereof should be placed with the title documents ( Precedents 34 and 38 ) . |
| 8 | Data for the latter are , of course , affected by privatization itself , but it appears from government figures ( see Note ) that sale of corporations accounted for over 400,000 of the 1.14 million jobs lost from nationalized industries between 1978 and 1988 ( prior to the sale of water and electricity ) . |
| 9 | Pearson received irrevocable commitment from Thorn EMI for the latter 's 58.85% stake in Thames , and this automatically triggers a full bid . |
| 10 | In 1984 the unemployment rate for the latter was 10.6 per cent , but it was 23 per cent for Afro-Caribbeans , 34.6 per cent for people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin , and 15.2 per cent for those of Indian origin . |
| 11 | Defenders of a traditional cosmology simply could not allow that the earth was made from the same materials as the planets , for the latter were composed of a fifth element not found in the corruptible , sublunar world . |
| 12 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 13 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 14 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 15 | As we have already indicated , it is generally assumed that in future there is likely to be a further reduction in the proportion of people of pensionable age who will be earning currently and hence adding to the gross national product as the latter is now calculated . |
| 16 | As the latter is the only one that works for the majority of UK phones you need to select it when you Install the program . |
| 17 | As the latter is likely to be completely unknown territory , each course participant will be given a simulated job interview with a panel of three unknown interviewers . |
| 18 | It is important to note that not all value is ‘ new value ’ for the purpose of section 245 as the latter is confined to money , goods or services and excluded are , for example , intellectual property and rights under a contract . |
| 19 | It must however , be carefully controlled because it is essential that a cover of perennial rather than annual grasses is maintained as the latter are more susceptible to drought . |
| 20 | Ideologically , Soviet leaders may have discovered that they may be as much hostage to Eastern Europe 's Communists as the latter are to Moscow . |
| 21 | The recipient of the manor became the lord of this land and not only farmed directly some of the land within it ( the demesne ) but also held rights over the rest of the land : for example , the manorial lord administered justice within the manor , in return , the grantor of the manor received certain services from the manorial lord , such as the latter 's serving as a knight in the former 's military contingent as or when necessary . |
| 22 | And as the former were also comparable with the pavement from Great Witcombe , the latter exhibit similar , fairly close parallels with mosaics 7 , Verulamium ( pls. 20 ) , ( closer than those which they share with any other mosaic in this group ) . |
| 23 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 24 | A key point about the former is that it also invokes in practice some measure of ‘ tolerance ’ on both sides , some concept of ‘ trust ’ . |
| 25 | If there is any truth , then , in the tradition of the connection between Seyyid Serif and Molla Fenari and one must beware here of the very common tendency of writers to associate great figures of the past with each other , sometimes in flagrant defiance of the facts and if the facts about the former are reasonably accurate , Molla Fenari would have arrived in Egypt about 772/1370 . |
| 26 | The capitalist West of the city is happy to embrace the socialist East , but worries about the latter 's commercial naivety . |
| 27 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 30 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |