Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | To concentrate on the latter is not only superficial , it is also incorrect . |
| 2 | The regulation of British Gas followed the general principles laid down for BT two years earlier , so it will suffice to concentrate on the latter . |
| 3 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 4 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 5 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 6 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 7 | In order to deal with the latter , all carry with them a book of fixedpenalty tickets . |
| 8 | ODDLY , the address file would not go into the address book application , for reasons ( I assume ) to do with the latter 's format demands . |
| 9 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 10 | Similarly some women ca n't or do n't want to ride in the latter stages of pregnancy but would like their horse kept in work . |
| 11 | The eagerness with which the boy sought for knowledge , however , so impressed his schoolmaster that he continued to teach him without a fee ; then , through Hooker 's uncle who was Chamberlain of Exeter , he persuaded John Jewel , Bishop of Salisbury , to pay for him to study at the latter 's old college of Corpus Christi at Oxford . |
| 12 | They may prefer short term bid speculation to long term recovery but if Mr Louis-Dreyfus has his way , they will have to settle for the latter . |
| 13 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 14 | What about the cattle which our bird and animal loving army allows to graze on the latter , or do they not matter ? |
| 15 | I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them . |
| 16 | I ) and consequently the pores are prone to infill by the latter . |
| 17 | But the only reason the Lewis conference in Barcelona was held in a tiny sweat box rather than the air-conditioned Olympic press centre was because his Japanese sponsors would not have been able to advertise at the latter venue . |