Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [art] latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to the latter now appears to be in understanding , both structurally and historically , the relations involved in what is misleadingly termed " design-and-society " . |
| 2 | We may say that a criterion of legal validity or source of law is supreme if rules identified by reference to it are still recognized as rules of the system , even if they conflict with rules identified by reference to the other criteria , whereas rules identified by reference to the latter are not so recognized if they conflict with the rules identified by reference to the supreme criterion . |
| 3 | On Russian television on July 4 , Yeltsin said that Kozyrev 's remarks had been assessed at the Security Council as " harmful " , and suggested that if Kozyrev wanted to " be a prophet like [ Eduard ] Shevardnadze , then act like Shevardnadze " ( a reference to the latter 's resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister in December 1990 after warning of an impending coup — see p. 37903 ) . |
| 4 | In ‘ Kubla Khan ’ Coleridge draws our attention to the latter through his use of masculine and feminine imagery , in the ‘ walls and towers ’ which were ‘ girdled ’ round the area of ‘ fertile ground ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 6 | The political notion of the ultimate sovereignty of the electorate must be distinguished from the legal doctrine of legislative supremacy : the courts owe their allegiance to the latter and recognise no ‘ trust ’ between Parliament and people . |
| 7 | One reaction to the latter in effect bemoans the absence of an Aristotelian plot : ‘ … |
| 8 | A mortgage of tangible property is made by a deed , which is called a Bill of Sale ; and , under the Bills of Sale Act 1882 ( as modified by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ) , it must be in the form given in the schedule to the latter Act , and attested and registered as required by that Act . |
| 9 | With respect to the latter , for example , women are no longer excluded from night duty and they perform a wider range of section duties than before . |
| 10 | If the matrix event is felt to " control " the infinitive event 's realization , then the matrix event must obviously be conceived as a conditioning factor with respect to the latter , and therefore as logically prior to ( i.e. before ) the infinitive event . |
| 11 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |
| 12 | Sir John suggested that if there was a clash in the allocation of resources between a credible level of nuclear deterrence and the necessary level of conventional forces , he , for one , would support giving priority to the latter . |
| 13 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 14 | The acquisition of such a firm by a larger firm with expansion in mind has the advantage to the latter over the opening up of a new branch office of being able to start with an existing client base . |
| 15 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 16 | In contrast to the latter , academic psychologists have concentrated more on creativity as a normal cognitive trait and with problems like its psychometric measurement , development , and correlations with other — mostly ‘ desirable ’ — characteristics . |
| 17 | The scornful response to the latter and silence about the former soon gives the game away . |
| 18 | Exposure to the latter route of infection does not occur until kittens begin to hunt for themselves or to share the prey of their dams . |
| 19 | First one has to ask whether as between the alleged wrongdoer and the person who has suffered damage there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that , in the reasonable contemplation of the former , carelessness on his part may be likely to cause damage to the latter , in which case a prima facie duty of care arises . |
| 20 | the containment of capitalism within a patrician hegemony [ ideological dominance ] which never , either then or since , actively favoured the aggressive development of industrialism or the general conversion of society to the latter 's values and interests ( 1981 , p. 32 ) . |
| 21 | For random instance , CBS/Fox has recently released ( £9.99 each ) not only Cronenberg 's 1986 The Fly and its far from negligible 1958 forerunner , but also the 1959 quick-buck sequel to the latter , Return Of The Fly , a collector 's item , though not necessarily in qualitative terms . |
| 22 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the sixteenth century , the trend to the latter solution became apparent . |
| 24 | A mercantile agent in possession of the vehicle itself might well be able to confer good title on an innocent purchaser , but the sale to the latter must occur whilst the mercantile agent is still in possession . |
| 25 | My own study is indebted to Fanon 's analysis of how discrimination is internalized psychically and perpetuated socially between subordinated groups , classes , and races — what , in relation to the latter , he calls ‘ the racial distribution of guilt ’ ( Black Skin , 103 ) ; also to his realization of the way the demonizing of the other is , above all , a mercurial process of displacement and condensation , so fluid yet always with effects of a brutally material , actually violent kind . |
| 26 | In relation to the latter , the increased amount of year-round open water has caused the spread of several water-borne diseases into the rural population . |
| 27 | In relation to the latter , the reduced flow of fresh water into the estuary will allow the intrusion of salt water and thus affect biological productivity that will rebound on fisheries and the supply of water for industrial , agricultural and domestic use . |
| 28 | In this respect , the law drew a clear distinction between prerogative powers and statutory powers : in relation to the latter , the basic rule is that their exercise is subject to judicial review on grounds of reasonableness and fairness . |
| 29 | In relation to the latter category , the Secretary of State should give MPAs the power to revoke or substantially amend permissions without any compensation where working is/would : |
| 30 | A number of disclosures were made between November 1989 and February 1990 of secret arrangements between the government and British Aerospace ( BAe ) in relation to the latter 's purchase of the motor manufacturer Rover Group . |