Example sentences of "[art] [det] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that ‘ when the dictionary , the grammar and the style book seem to rule okay , we find the language of the street , of the bar , of the market-place , of the many rather than the few , striking back and changing our own , educated perceptions of what English really is . ’ |
| 2 | I am afraid it is the latter rather than the former . |
| 3 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 4 | By choosing the latter rather than the former an applicant might be able to avoid the restrictive features of AJR procedure . |
| 5 | I I I 'm well I 'm not entirely familiar with such jargon , I think it falls within the latter rather than the former definition . |
| 6 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 7 | The latter once provided the power for a series of mills , Lower , Upper and Middle . |
| 8 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 9 | I believe it is the former rather than the latter . |
| 10 | In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’ |
| 11 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |
| 12 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 13 | and then pensions are the same again except the guy 's a carpenter , a self-employed carpenter , and then finally erm there 's only one of you doing er so you Robert going for the savings , you 're doing savings are n't you ? |
| 14 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 15 | Which meant you had to try the mixing drop it onto the plate count how many you got out it clean out the machine and try another one and do the same again and the same again . |
| 16 | ‘ I weigh exactly the same now as the day I got married ’ |
| 17 | Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid |
| 18 | Yep , complete load of crap … out of order they even say it … its been the same ever since the premier card was first introduced . |
| 19 | A teacher can not hope to function as a normal communicative support system in most classroom interaction since it is a one-to-many rather than a one-to-one situation . |
| 20 | Born in Limerick a year and a half ago as The Cranberry Saw Us ( shudder ) the three boys decided that they wanted a girl to call their own . |