Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard came forward then to formally ask for her hand in a pavan but , observing that his brother was conversing with his elected bride and catching the latter 's meaningful glance , he cheerfully turned away and asked his sister Cecily instead . |
| 2 | A 74 left her on 149 , three strokes ahead of Gillian Stewart , while Julie Forbes , over her bout of flu , matched the former 's 74 to finish on the qualifying mark of 155 . |
| 3 | Under the Treaty of Rome its powers were defined as the supervision of both the Commission and the Council of Ministers , including the right to put questions to the Commission and to discuss the latter 's annual report , to discharge the annual budget , and to censure the Commission . |
| 4 | The American blockade of Cuba threw the latter 's post-revolutionary land-use planning into confusion and caused wholesale cultivation of food crops on very vulnerable steep slopes . |
| 5 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 6 | What I , what I suggest we do is we take this opportunity of having to review , to sort of have a complete overview and actually do , run a few er routine blood tests at this stage as well . |
| 7 | Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or ‘ pure ’ Cubist ; taking over from where the eager Picasso left off , and refining and enriching the latter 's artistic legacy . |
| 8 | A breed , by Bakewell 's definition , embraced animals descended from good ancestors and inheriting the latter 's good qualities in form , flesh and speed of fattening . |
| 9 | On the other hand , refusal to cooperate would have been perceived by the professionals as reinforcing the latter 's initial perceptions . |
| 10 | Intermediate between Quail and Partridge ( p. 103 ) , having the latter 's rufous tail . |
| 11 | Plotinus also advanced beyond Plato by modifying the latter 's famous metaphor of time as the moving image of eternity , since he was more concerned to stress the difference between , rather than the resemblance of , time and eternity . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Australia has signed an agreement with Apscore International to develop the latter 's Pick-based Cue-Bic Financials suite of software for the Sun platform , becoming yet another part of the increasingly complex web of agreements made by Sun under its Partnership for Development Program with the Federal Government ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 13 | In fact , some of the paragraphs reproduced in summary form the personal rights articles of the constitution of 1922 and thus could claim to maintain the latter 's libertarian heritage . |
| 14 | Well if there are many days like this at Filbert Street I think a few er underground heaters in the new stand would be suitable . |
| 15 | These were made in consultation with Yeltsin , and replaced the latter 's interim appointments of the day before . |
| 16 | The crassness of this assumption was forcibly put to the president by the speaker , Tip O'Neill , following the former 's televised address to the nation on the energy problem on 18 April 1977 . |
| 17 | But on the other hand we thought I suppose oh good riddance you know er rather than have a few er namby-pamby people you know sitting on the fence , we might be better off without them . |