Example sentences of "the [det] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 2 | One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch . |
| 3 | Many foreign brands have established themselves in the former Soviet Union for the sake of the publicity , but Baskin-Robbins becomes one of the few to commit themselves to manufacturing there . |
| 4 | Mr Thomas said the Co-op Bank was one of the few to cut its charge for bad debts , which fell from £47.7 million to £42.8 million in the year to 9 January , while profits before debt provisions leapt 26 per cent to £52.7 million . |
| 5 | Allowing each of two groups to choose some part of the law of abortion , in proportion to their numbers , is fairer ( in our sense ) than the winner-take-all scheme our instincts prefer , which denies many people any influence at all over an issue they think desperately important . |
| 6 | So if we get to the all play and we win the all play we 've won . |
| 7 | The latter led him to publish a pungent tract on patent medicines . |
| 8 | The latter sounded his horn impatiently , and without waiting for any sign nosed his car into the middle lane , accelerating as he did so . |
| 9 | Also appearing are the up-and-coming Farenheit and Guitarist contributor Michael Fath , the latter repeating his performance at our recent Scottish Show . |
| 10 | For example , the plaintiff asserts that he or she owns Blackacre and the defendant denies it ; or the plaintiff asserts that he or she is entitled to compensation from the defendant and the latter denies it . |
| 11 | The neurotic can not be compared with a magician , for example , in a traditional society , for the latter learns his role from the culture into which he is born . |
| 12 | Since the early 1960s it had increasingly opted for linking very different issues in a single package , hoping that because the latter offered something to each of the Six the whole would prove acceptable to all . |
| 13 | At the same time if design in both practice and theory can not be " read " as belonging to the social , the latter turns its back on it . |
| 14 | On the positive side , we now have two extra zoom sizes for page display ; 400% and clipboard , the latter allows you to find all those things that you hid on the clipboard and forgot about . |
| 15 | Thus , unless otherwise agreed it is not for the seller to convey the goods to the buyer but for the latter to collect them . |
| 16 | It would be dangerous to assume from this simplification , however , that the two perspectives can be easily separated by the ideological position each adopts , the former tending to see ‘ permissiveness ’ as bad , the latter seeing it as good . |
| 17 | Consequently there was much disappointment in Washington when the European Community was established in 1957 without Britain , and when the latter went her own way as leader of the looser and less ambitious European Free Trade Area . |
| 18 | The thought of winning a Championship medal also helps him to endure the pain he still suffers , though both Ron Atkinson and Graham Taylor — the latter signed him for Villa — have learned to nurse him through the week and preserve his talents for match-days . |
| 19 | In 1378 , in another foray into Brittany , he was again with Gaunt when the latter launched his abortive attack on St Malo . |
| 20 | He served as president of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Italian Royal College of Science ; the latter made him automatically a member of the council of the Fascist party and entitled him to be addressed as His Excellency . |
| 21 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 22 | No more than the latter does it seek to lay claim to ‘ the real , or Truth as such . |
| 23 | The latter told her that a transfusion was not usually necessary and , in response to her inquiry said , that other , less effective , procedures were available . |
| 24 | During World War II he served in the Royal Artillery and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs , the latter foreshadowing his immediately postwar position as head of the department for the exchange of information in Unesco , where he worked towards universal bibliographical control . |
| 25 | In 1216 it was Eustace who commanded the fleet which ferried Philip 's son , Louis , across to England when the latter mounted his bid for the English throne . |
| 26 | This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers . |
| 27 | The latter succeeded his father as grand župan and in 1202. received the symbols of royalty from Pope Innocent III . |
| 28 | For a short period after Peach 's retirement the duties were shared by Crampton and Carruthers , the latter conducting his research on zaphrentid corals at this time . |
| 29 | The former necessarily put the experts above the masses , while the latter calls for popular control of the bureaucrats through election ; the former espouses elitism while the latter egalitarianism ; the former restricts opportunities while the latter opens them . |
| 30 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |