Example sentences of "the former [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The report rejected the idea of two distinct groups of children , the handicapped and the non-handicapped , of whom the former had special education and the latter just education . |
| 3 | In spite of the H pylori negative uraemic patients having intragastric ammonium concentrations similar to the H pylori positive non-uraemic patients , the former had cumulative gastritis scores of 1 or less which were equivalent to those in the H pylori negative patients with normal renal function . |
| 4 | The challenge was only slightly weakened by the divergent preoccupations of middle-class Republicans and Socialists , the former stressing institutional reform and a transformation of social values and attitudes , the latter the redistribution of wealth , property and economic power . |
| 5 | Suffice to say here that its effects on film and television studies is most evident in the split between ‘ textualists ’ and ‘ contextualists ’ , the former emphasizing textual analysis and the position of the spectator , the latter more concerned with contextual inquiry and the role of the audience . |
| 6 | The former screened Red Alert , a TV movie about a full-scale alert at a nuclear reactor , a plot related to that of the cinema hit The China Syndrome . |
| 7 | The former provides direct advice to an individual , usually about personal problems . |
| 8 | Figures 4.1 and 4.2 summarize this example , with the former depicting gross expenditure on the police force distributed on a line item/input basis and the latter distributing expenditure according to major programmes on an output basis . |
| 9 | If in the latter one could not tell whether his voice was as bad as it was supposed to be , the former gave ample proof . |
| 10 | The former bowled mean medium-pace , the latter with a venomous left arm , and they shared all 13 Australian wickets to fall in a low-scoring game that Waddy 's men won by seven . |