Example sentences of "[vb past] the latter [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice the demands of the administration made the latter appointment impractical . |
| 2 | No one mentioned the latter point and only four teachers the former . |
| 3 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 4 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 5 | In the end the Law Society adopted the latter course . |
| 6 | On May 28 the West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , rejected the latter suggestion but declared : " It is remarkable that the Soviet President is now beginning to concern himself in public with the prerequisites for [ German ] NATO membership . " |
| 7 | Somes joined the latter company when it was refounded in 1838 , sold to it its first ship , Tory ( sent to New Zealand in 1839 with a shipload of settlers without government permission ) , and became governor of the company in 1840 . |
| 8 | On Feb. 8 , 1990 , the US raised the latter figure to US$259,000,000 . |
| 9 | In 1990–1 , the first year of operation of the new system , he followed the latter course , and capped the charges set by 21 authorities . |
| 10 | During the first World War Hamilton served with the Coldstream Guards ( he stood just on 6ft ) and he spent the latter part of his service at Caterham Barracks from where he signed for Palace when he was ‘ demobbed ’ in December 1922 . |
| 11 | The one problem was Emerson Fittipaldi , who spent the latter part of I975 in something of a dither . |
| 12 | What could we point to if someone chose the latter continuation , to show that he was wrong ? |
| 13 | They chose the latter course of action . |
| 14 | Faced with the option of further radicalisation or retreat , the MNR chose the latter course , proceeding to expel its left wing in 1964 . |
| 15 | They chose the latter course but they sent to the buyer separate shipping documents in respect of two different lots in the one ship . |
| 16 | Chlothild was presented with the choice of either having her grandchildren tonsured or killed ; she chose the latter solution , although one child , Chlodovald , escaped to become a monk and , in time , to be revered as St Cloud . |
| 17 | Russia chose the latter option , and her campaign in the south was at first to have a most promising outcome . |
| 18 | ( They kept the latter over from ‘ World Clique ’ until it could appear in America on a less-wasteful Eco-Pac CD . ) |
| 19 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 20 | Arsenal have done well with the former , Liverpool in the past took the latter path with great success . |
| 21 | Liberia and Panama took the latter view , and claimed that the election was null and void from the moment Liberia was not elected . |
| 22 | Acheson said that the joint chiefs of staff preferred the latter course of action . |
| 23 | The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense ; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith . |
| 24 | Lectures were given on agriculture , rural economy , and medical jurisprudence ; Sewell considered the latter subjects worth adopting in London . |