Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by [art] latter " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In applying national law , whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the directive , the national court called upon to interpret it is required to do so , as far as possible , in the light of the wording and the purpose of the directive in order to achieve the result pursued by the latter and thereby comply with the third paragraph of Article 189 of the Treaty . ’
2 More significant was the greater scope for historical research offered by the latter ; clothes , Laura recognized , could never draw upon their historical antecedents to the same degree .
3 The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism .
4 The most obvious example of this in recent years , of course , has been the relationship between Lloyds Bank plc , Black Horse Agencies plc and the various unlimited companies acquired by the latter .
5 However , he concedes that ‘ state practice on this question is not unequivocal but indicates that the governments of the United States , France , Canada , and the United Kingdom regard the use of nuclear weapons as permissible against an aggressor state irrespective of the weapons employed by the latter ’ .
6 They , and all of life in India in its own way , are sacred , but the holes bored by the former and the mounds erected by the latter in the paddocks were a threat to the horses , Occidental logic demanded that the one could best be filled by the deposition of the other .
7 In 1758 , four years after he had added the clerkship of Richmond New Park Lodge to that he held at Hampton Court , when the comptroller of the works , Thomas Ripley [ q.v. ] , was dying , he wrote to Newcastle to apply for his post ; and although in the event the preferment went to Henry Flitcroft [ q.v. ] , it was by Newcastle 's ‘ immediate appointment ’ that Wright was promoted to the posts of master mason and deputy surveyor vacated by the latter .
8 The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ .
9 Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former .
10 A consequence of the definition of a third party organisation is that an organisation with identical membership to another organisation is , technically at least , a third party to a treaty concluded by the latter .
11 British colonies profited by the latter , but spent their newly earned dollars on their own development programmes , causing a major outflow of dollars from the sterling area .
12 The content of the Tables is reminiscent of the Tables in the Universal Decimal Classification , and , indeed , they were to some extent inspired by the latter .
13 However , the energy removed by the latter process is directly dissipated , reappearing as heat , whereas the action of the Reynolds stress provides energy for the turbulence .
14 They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects .
15 It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter .
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