Example sentences of "the [det] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As proof of his sanctity , the latter describes various miracles after the saint 's death , one of which concerns the Danish leaders who were among his murderers . |
| 2 | A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself . |
| 3 | Always wear a climbing or motorcycle helmet — the latter offers more protection from bouncing stones and bad weather . |
| 4 | The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy . |
| 5 | It is true that the acceptance of computing is still greater in research rather than teaching , but it must be said that the latter holds great potential , some of which , hopefully , will be unleashed through the injection of much-needed resources via schemes such as the Computers in Teaching Initiative ( CTI ) and the Teaching and Learning Training Project ( TLTP ) . |
| 6 | He was involved in the building of nearby Lyndon Hall , which is exactly like South Luffenham in every detail except that the latter has five bays on each side and Lyndon has seven . |
| 7 | Features of possible appeal to this market include a music centre , comprising AM/FM radio tuner with scan capabilities and 16 programmable pre-set stations , a compact disk player , and an eight channel mixer to adjust the tuning and balance of the radio or CD-ROM — the latter has potential applications for home-based education , providing on-line tutorials and reference guides . |
| 8 | The former provides the criteria for determining when a treaty creates rights or obligations vis a vis third States , while the latter has comparable provisions with respect to third party organisations . |
| 9 | The latter has lovely tones but is not always an easy leaf to use as its heavy colouring can make it difficult to incorporate into a design . |
| 10 | The latter has large values at much higher κ than the former . |
| 11 | The latter occupies 3 months for the MSc or 15 months research for the MPhil . |
| 12 | The latter includes many examples of database descriptions and search aids . |
| 13 | The former specifies three core skills at a level more basic than stage 1 , while the latter includes four core skills at stage 1 or the more basic level ( see specifications on page 5 ) . |
| 14 | Equally complicated are the Lamento di Zelemi , turca ( ‘ Con occhi belli e fieri ’ ) in 13 sections , four of which consist of an aria repeated as a ritornello , and ‘ Hor che notte guerriera ’ for two sopranos and tenor ( representing Fortuna , Amore , and Amante ) , and two violins ; the latter includes three recitatives , two arias , a duet , and two terzetti as well as three instrumental sinfonie . |
| 15 | The extra eight minutes in Maxim 's reading are accounted for almost entirely by the first and fourth movements ; the former lacks inner tension , while the latter sags alarmingly in the middle . |
| 16 | The connection between the existence of a system of private property and freedom is that the former enables each individual to construct a ‘ private sphere ’ , rendering him or herself safe from coercive interference by others . |
| 17 | In the previous subsection I distinguished invention from learning by stressing the extent to which the former involves internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems . |
| 18 | Broadly speaking the more immediate the feedback the more effective it is except that there comes a point at which , to use Miller 's ( 1953 ) distinction , learning feedback becomes action feedback , the latter improves the current response whereas the former improves succeeding responses . |
| 19 | The former specifies three core skills at a level more basic than stage 1 , while the latter includes four core skills at stage 1 or the more basic level ( see specifications on page 5 ) . |
| 20 | The former has Corinthian capitals , still beautiful despite their mutilation . |
| 21 | The former has fourteen texts ranging from manifestoes by Malevich and Marinetti to extracts from Bergson , Simmel , Weber and Karl Kraus ; the latter has twelve more familiar texts on Cubism . |
| 22 | The former has five gadroons , compared to the three in the Colchester example but , clearly , they might still be the work of the same mosaicist . |
| 23 | The former has several aero clubs and schools , ( Auckland Aero Club , Ardmore Flying School , Flightline Aeronautical College , Tasman Air Services etc. ) , with dozens of aircraft , Cessna , Piper , Grunman etc. available for visiting pilots to check out on and rent . |
| 24 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 25 | The former provides direct advice to an individual , usually about personal problems . |
| 26 | For example , the word cocoa would receive twice as much activation as the word code , after the input of because the former contains two occurrences of these phonemes . |
| 27 | Whilst the former gathers historical data to test hypotheses about the nature of slavery in the ante-bellum South of the USA , the latter reads texts to reveal the chronology and meaning of the career of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII . |
| 28 | The former suggests that retirement spread through unfettered consumer desire for more leisure , that industrialization progressively excluded older workers but also created the national wealth and political will ( through the establishment of mass democracy ) to support them on state pension schemes , and that increasing personal prosperity led to the individual 's growing ability to save through a private pension . |
| 29 | The POA says previous appeals for extra staff have fallen on deaf ears ; if the same happens this time , they fear they 'll soon have a riot on their hands . |