Example sentences of "[art] [det] and [art] " in BNC.

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1 Attempts to mitigate what were recognized as disastrous divisions often took the form of a refusal to acknowledge the wide difference of ability that existed between pupils , which led to a style and content of teaching roughly directed to the middle band of children , the least and the most able being left to shift for themselves .
2 " All communities divide themselves into the few and the many .
3 If he did not understand about the unicorn or about the many and the one he understood Marian still less when she talked about simple things being difficult .
4 Also present at these sites is a much smaller form related to the latter and a larger species of Proconsul , P. major .
5 This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen .
6 There is talk of a merger between the latter and the Holstein Society … .
7 Walter Hallstein and the Netherlands were particularly critical of France , and the tension between the latter and the other five increased significantly .
8 Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance .
9 The funicle comprises those segments which intervene between the ring-segments and the club , or between the latter and the pedicel in cases when the ring-segments are not differentiated .
10 It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University .
11 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 .
12 Thus it is important to have paddocks and gardens close to farmsteads , for overnight penning of animals , and garden crops for use in cooking ; but both the latter and the arable need a lot of manure from the farmstead and are also intensively worked in terms of man hours .
13 It was returned to the latter and the purchaser brought an action against the seller under section 12 .
14 He reportedly stated that CITUB would not undertake any commitments without first consulting Podkrepa , and did not wish to take advantage of any conflicts between the latter and the government .
15 Hotel operators will already be familiar with the typewriter or personal computer keyboard ; the latter and the screen-based console are the heart of the system , which has been designed to make operation as simple as possible .
16 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 .
17 Whereas Palmer focusses exclusively on the non-actual character of the infinitive 's event , we wish to draw attention here to what his observations imply about the nature of the modal auxiliaries and the relation between the latter and the bare infinitive .
18 They desire to keep perfectly still ; the more and the longer they move the more they suffer .
19 In practice — and even in theory — there is also a spectrum of the more and the less significant .
20 Variations can also be expected to exist between the more and the less accessible rural areas , but few published data exist that allow this to be illustrated .
21 a general enrichment of the concrete substance of civilized life , a general reduction of risk and insecurity , an equalization between the more and the less fortunate at all levels — between the healthy and the sick , the employed and the unemployed , the old and the active , the bachelor and the father of the large family .
22 Again Hughes has clearly described the influences , movements and inputs which have questioned monolith models and which have drawn a distinction between the more and the less valuable insights of the practitioner .
23 We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter .
24 They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other .
25 If we divide orientation techniques into those which are media-assisted and those which are not ( eg guided tours ) we find that the former are infrequently used in the college libraries , while university and polytechnic libraries generally employ both the former and the latter .
26 It is the offspring of a lion and an eagle , with the hindparts of the former and the head , neck , wings and claws of the latter .
27 In the present case there were clearly grounds for doubts about whether the accounting period ended on 25 October 1977 or 31 January 1978 , W believing the former and the company contending the latter .
28 As a device for separating ‘ general matters of policy ’ from ‘ day to day administration ’ it seemed a comfortable way of combining public accountability with business efficiency in a parliamentary system of government : Ministers dealt with the former and the corporation 's employees with the latter .
29 In the case of both international Marxist socialism and German National Socialism , the centre-piece of the party programme was the liberation of the masses from exploitation and persecution by money-makers , Jews in the one case , capitalists in the other ( of course , as I have shown elsewhere , the latter is derived from the former and the former is only a somewhat secularized version of traditional Christian anti-Semitism ) .
30 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 .
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