Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vice Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , allowing the Prudential 's appeal , said that the subject matter of the sale had to be identified . |
| 2 | London-based Powercore International Ltd and Paris-based Isocor Corp have announced a joint technology agreement to enable the former 's Network Scheduler 3 workgroup product to operate as a native client application over Isocor 's suite of X400 messaging systems . |
| 3 | The former 's idealistically active audience confronts the latter 's picture of passive consumers , which is no more than an abstraction . |
| 4 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 5 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 6 | Better still in these wet spring months , a liberal dousing of rain will do little to affect the Limited 's progress . |
| 7 | SynOptics Communications Inc has announced an order from the Unipart Group of Companies for its System 3000 intelligent hubs , which will be used to spearhead the latter 's migration from IBM Corp mainframe systems to personal computer local networks : the order comes via network integrator Harris Adacom , and comprises seven System 3000 hubs which will be used to run Token Ring and Ethernet ; the total contract is worth £250,000 , and SynOptics says it won the order ahead of competition from Cabletron and IBM . |
| 8 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 9 | Happily , I was able to acquire the latter 's autograph myself shortly afterwards , but the disillusionment still lingers to this day ! |
| 10 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 11 | While one party to an internal armed conflict will be the government representative of the State party to the Convention , the other will be a body of individuals challenging the former 's authority . |
| 12 | A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers . |
| 13 | The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport . |
| 14 | Possibly Mr Quekett came to his aid : it would be a simple matter to consult the parish registers for St George 's until they found the bridegroom-to-be 's baptism in 1818 , son of Benjamin Titford of Chapman Street , ‘ Outrider ’ — and so the entry reads on the marriage certificate . |
| 15 | You may also find it useful to know a binocular 's field of view — usually expressed as the width of the area you can see at a distance of 1000m or 3,280ft . |
| 16 | Many new towns on the fringe of the affluent south-east are so heavily populated by young married couples that they simply do not cater for retired people in any of their social activities ; similarly , you may be pushed to find an under-30s ' club in a retirement village on the south coast . |
| 17 | When the buyer-notify party paid the amount owed to the issuing bank , it received the latter 's authority to claim the goods from the carrier . |
| 18 | The bank was contractually obliged to honour the cheque even when honouring put the accused 's account into the red . |
| 19 | The assumption by Franco of the chairmanship of the Party Political Committee , occupied until then by Serrano , further reduced the latter 's ability to influence domestic affairs . |
| 20 | The two brothers were at times united in their hostility to Chilperic 's son Chlothar II , and at one moment they reduced the latter 's kingdom to territory between the Seine , the Oise and the sea . |
| 21 | The integration was achieved through a strategic alliance with Wellfleet Communications Inc under which Optical Data incorporated the latter 's Link Node router technology into the new Infinity hub family , said to combine switching , advanced management and full bridge-routing capabilities . |
| 22 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 23 | He told the court he did n't believe the accused 's story , Kim was shy and self-conscious and he did n't believe she would have brought Shukir back to the flat . |
| 24 | In 1532 he was sent as Ambassador to the German Emperor , nominally to discuss the latter 's plan for European action against the Turks , but secretly to explore a possible alliance for England with some of the Protestant German princes . |
| 25 | We realized at this stage that it would be difficult for this strand of non-print publishing to develop from existing production expertise , however advanced the latter 's use of electronics to produce print more cheaply and more flexibly . |
| 26 | In Felthouse v. Bindley ( 1863 Q.B. ) the offeror wrote to his nephew offering to buy the latter 's horse . |
| 27 | This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require . |
| 28 | A deal struck between the government and the central bank at the beginning of April increases the former 's control over subsidised credits . |
| 29 | The court allowed the accused 's appeal . |
| 30 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |