Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd gave a good send-off to the latter when he was substituted so I suppose he did well . |
| 2 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 3 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 4 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 5 | Most of the work and examples seem far more applicable to the former than to the latter . |
| 6 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 7 | Yeah , sorry … to be honest I do regard you Irish as the same as me ( whatever that is ! ) . |
| 8 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |
| 9 | In , prior to ninety one ninety two which is three years prior to now , a married woman was entitled to the same as that , it was , they did n't call it basic allowance , the same amount only if she was married of course and working , it had to be earned income . |