Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the latter [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the whole country only two lorries had been hijacked during the latter part of May and neither was on Hatton 's regular route . |
| 2 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 3 | In his New Year address Fiji 's President , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , suggested that Fiji 's new constitution ( guaranteeing political power for the country 's native Melanesian inhabitants ) would be adopted during the latter half of 1990 , and that legislative elections would be held within two years . |
| 4 | The National Assembly ( elected in July — see p. 38994 ) was to be inaugurated on the latter date as planned . |
| 5 | A number of new trade unions were formed in the latter part of 1989 to represent a wide range of workers . |
| 6 | Those units were joined in the latter part of the 1980s in a rationalisation plan . |
| 7 | The different techniques of pouch construction reflect the surgical developments on the unit with the totally stapled J-pouch-anal anastomosis being favoured in the latter part of the survey . |
| 8 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 9 | Although further peace negotiations were scheduled for the latter half of 1991 , the situation remained unresolved . |
| 10 | Little evidence is presented that would support the claim that the moral panics associated with permissiveness were linked to the latter panic over street crime . |
| 11 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 12 | Members of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) , whose forces took Addis Ababa in May [ see pp. 38174-75 ] , were appointed to the Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries ( Seyoum Mesfin , who had been named as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991 , being confirmed in the latter post ) . |
| 13 | Where goldfish are kept in the latter system , lighting is best provided by a combination of Grolux and warm white tubes as this will bring out the colours of the fish . |
| 14 | If retrieval of the CS-US association depends upon the presence of the cues of the conditioning context whereas the cues of the pre-exposure context allow retrieval of the information that the target stimulus is not followed by any event , then no conditioned responding can be expected when the CS is presented in the latter context . |
| 15 | Yoshida was a former diplomat of Anglophile inclinations ; he had firmly disapproved of the ascendancy of the military before and during the Pacific War and had been imprisoned in the latter part of the war . |
| 16 | Moreover the effect of the statute , in preventing the separation between legal and equitable estates in the cases to which it applied , was nullified in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the decision of the Chancery to protect trusts declared upon the uses which the statute had turned into legal estates . |
| 17 | It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria . |
| 18 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 19 | A vast inshore field of Scottish genius was struck in the latter part of the 18th century . |
| 20 | These reached a peak during the truce of 1444–49 , but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year . |
| 21 | Leader of the State Council Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to the latter position — effectively a presidential role — with over 95 per cent of the vote . |
| 22 | An upturn in tonnages was recorded in the latter part of the decade , however , and the threat of at least one further pipeline receded when Total Oil renewed a major contract with BR in 1988 . |
| 23 | The predominance of Russia was overtaken during the latter half of the nineteenth century by a succession of gold rushes to more or less remote parts of the world colonized predominantly by the British . |