Example sentences of "the [det] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 2 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 3 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 4 | In a climate of radical spending cuts , the latter seems highly unlikely . |
| 5 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 6 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 7 | The latter seems more likely . |
| 8 | The latter includes both young and mature students with normal entry qualifications . |
| 9 | The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae , lichens and mosses in varying combinations ; the latter includes only one subformation , involving the two antarctic flowering plants , the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis . |
| 10 | As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness . |
| 11 | Dooling predicted that when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence was meaningful , a sentence context should make this task easier than a word context since the former provides more advance information about the likely meaning of the target sentence . |
| 12 | But the former seems regrettably unlikely and the latter , over all , undesirable . |
| 13 | The former seems more likely in larger companies and the latter in small , particularly new , companies . |
| 14 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 15 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |