Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , the United States might be described as being oriented toward a mix of the empirical and the rationalist , albeit with the former being clearly the more dominant of the two . |
| 2 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
| 3 | Soon a scrum developed which bore a greater resemblance to that other American game than to the former game of Redcoat rounders being played below , and Denis had to pile in beside his uncle to the great detriment of his new coat and the loss of one trilby . |
| 4 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
| 5 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 6 | In the latter case one is confronted by something like a functioning assembly which needs to be dismantled and analysed before it can be understood , whereas in the former case one has something much more like an ‘ exploded ’ view of things as seen in a working drawing . |
| 7 | In Yorkshire the houses of the period tend to be of stone rubble while in the former Wiltshire downlands they are more often than not made of cob , a mixture of chalk , straw and manure , or of flint rubble . |
| 8 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 9 | Here the smaller aperture and higher magnification means that the images are not so bright as in the former pairs , and the field is smaller still . |
| 10 | The latter — as in the former works — are shaped according to the job they had to do , i.e. rectangular ( not cubic ) tesserae depict the moustache as it falls either side of the mouth . |
| 11 | Gall bladder contraction was significantly ( p<0.05 ) weaker , however , in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy as compared with those without ( Fig 1 ) as in the former patients only the highest dose of cholecystokinin 8 induced a significant decrease of gall bladder volumes . |
| 12 | As to the former suggestion the position seems fairly clear . |