Example sentences of "of the latter [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in the 1960s English was subjected to the pressures of massive institutional change , the new model provided the context for a whole sequence of disciplinary disputes , Indeed , in the course of the latter decade the figure of the " mature man " became increasingly discredited , or at least challenged as the appropriate basis for the discipline " cultural aims and functions . |
| 2 | However , only at the end of the latter decade was the communist government replaced by a democratically elected government committed to comprehensive reform , involving liberalisation of prices , extensive privatisation , and related policies . |
| 3 | A classic example of the latter category is a decision not to appoint or not to promote an employee or office holder or to fail an examinee . |
| 4 | If temporary workers are to be brought in , they will press for them to be of the latter category . |
| 5 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 6 | Most actors in soap operas are of the latter school . |
| 7 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 8 | It was also felt that consequent uncertainty in the bookselling trade would lead booksellers to place smaller initial orders for new titles , and that rising prices and the axing of valuable but commercially marginal titles from publishers ' lists would ensue ( both of the latter effects have , in fact , to some extent ensued , in spite of the judgement ) . |
| 9 | It is not in those circumstances surprising that the court decided in favour of the latter construction . |
| 10 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 11 | A simplification of the latter part of Dr Puthoff 's summary may be in order for those unfamiliar with quantum terms . |
| 12 | The challenge to the settled order of society originated almost wholly in the political aspirations , suppressed in response to the French Revolution and continuing for nearly forty years , of the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Private sector auditing emerged following the great economic collapses of the latter part of the nineteenth century and , more recently , that of the 1930s . |
| 14 | The heartiness of the latter part of his sentence was in response to a sudden visible stiffening on Hope 's part . |
| 15 | It may be helpful if at this point I pull together the underlying theme of the latter part of this chapter with the help of a schema . |
| 16 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 17 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 18 | Against this wage trend , the rising prices of the latter part of the century were bound to make for severe reductions in living standards . |
| 19 | Ruth wanted to leave but was so panic-stricken at the thought of the latter happening that a decision to go or stay was out of her reasoning . |
| 20 | It was quite normal for us to find large quantities of the latter goods stowed away by crew members against the possibility of long stays in UK waters . |
| 21 | The EEC states were prepared to accept the jurisdiction of the latter court in cases of human rights . |
| 22 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
| 23 | Finally , Morgan commented that enormous demands were placed on the staff of the latter unit and recommended a review of its organization . |
| 24 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 25 | Both seemed appropriate and both aspects of the latter title had been well illustrated . |
| 26 | However , in emphasising the specifically capitalist form of the latter division , both Marx and Braverman exaggerate what they take to be its essential features : rationality and authoritarianism . |
| 27 | An increasing proportion of the latter occupations seek to live beyond the cities and to commute back to them . |
| 28 | The in situ DNA methylation reaction is allowed to proceed without shaking of the tray , for a length of time sufficient to statistically obtain one methylation event per DNA strand , which is inversely proportional to the size of the DNA probe ( the restricted translational and rotational freedom of the DNA molecules embedded in the gel pores increases the stringency of the latter consideration ) . |
| 29 | Coincidentally management of the latter changes hands about the same time . |
| 30 | Because of the latter requirement there can not be a double charge to tax on the same income ( s744 ) . |