Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 2 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 3 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 4 | Oliver Napier of the Alliance party thereupon wrote an open letter to the people of the Republic calling their attention to the same matters . |
| 5 | The political notion of the ultimate sovereignty of the electorate must be distinguished from the legal doctrine of legislative supremacy : the courts owe their allegiance to the latter and recognise no ‘ trust ’ between Parliament and people . |
| 6 | Consequently , the former could not owe their form to the latter , and so magical correspondences between them were eliminated . |
| 7 | And many instrumental solos in popular music owe their form to the same conceptualization . |
| 8 | Soon the fading sky would be full of bombers from neighbouring air fields and others further north , all on their way to the same distant target — Hamburg , Berlin , the Ruhr . |
| 9 | The conclusion is irresistible that Mr Mandela is exploiting the government 's growing dependence on him to extend his influence to the many black organisations whose adoptive leader he is . |
| 10 | However it was in Brazil that he had learned Portuguese — hence his posting to the former Portuguese colony in Africa . |
| 11 | Nicholas de Loit , MP , is on his way to the same hotel . |
| 12 | In ‘ Kubla Khan ’ Coleridge draws our attention to the latter through his use of masculine and feminine imagery , in the ‘ walls and towers ’ which were ‘ girdled ’ round the area of ‘ fertile ground ’ . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |