Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the latter [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably through the patronage of John Prideaux that Calandrini came into contact with James Ussher [ q.v. ] , later archbishop of Armagh , whom he assisted in his scholarly activities during the latter 's three-year stay in London . |
| 2 | Hawkins collaborated with Fleischmann during the latter 's visits to Utah and they planned to extend the data samples to include rods of 8 mm up to 2 cm diameter . |
| 3 | In August 1942 a violent clash occurred between a small group of armed Falangists and a crowd of Carlists attending a memorial mass for the latter 's war-dead . |
| 4 | The leader of the Southern Society , Pavel Pestel — executed , not exiled — was the son of the notorious Governor-General mentioned earlier ; G. S. Batenkov , himself of Siberian origin , acted as a close personal aide to Speranskii during the latter 's governorship ; Baron V.I . |
| 5 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 6 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 7 | At that hour Steve Pyle was with Mr Al-Haroun in the latter 's office in Jeddah , having flown to the coast following a disturbing phone call . |
| 8 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 9 | The establishment of internal controls is the responsibility of management , not of internal audit , but as a service to management it is part of the latter 's role to review , appraise and report on the soundness and adequacy of these controls . |
| 10 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 11 | Absorbed by loving considerations of her tastes , Mitzi did not notice that Elisabeth was not replying , and her attention was drawn to her companion only when the peculiar noise of the latter 's choking was sounding right round the Hall . |
| 12 | Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves . |
| 13 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 14 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 15 | César Gavira Trujillo , 43 , who had held office as Finance Minister and Interior Minister under the current President , Virgilio Barco Vargas , and who had taken over the election campaign of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmineto after the latter 's assassination on Aug. 18 , 1989 [ see p. 36844 ] , received an estimated 60 per cent of the vote and comfortably defeated his five rivals . |
| 16 | When the pro-oralist John Howard succeeded Charles Baker at Doncaster upon the latter 's death , Kirk felt he needed to move and waited for the opportunity to do so . |
| 17 | Commenting on these provisions in a case in which , through no fault of the plaintiff , process had failed to reach a defendant in France until some two months after the leaving date , a Dutch court said that ‘ the Convention subordinates the interests of plaintiffs in enforcing their rights as quickly as possible against foreign defendants to the latter 's interest in having an opportunity of defending themselves ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | After the evening when he introduced Atkins , he remained in the background and his place as the latter 's companion was taken by a swarthy newcomer . |
| 20 | The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track . |
| 21 | On close examination of the latter 's findings , in fact , it is difficult to say on what precise evidence they base their view , that ‘ this question of [ specialist-generic ] labour division ’ ( p. 215 ) is without either impact or ( by implication ) interest . |
| 22 | Two of the recent decisions highlight some of the problems facing employees seeking to correlate the benefit the employer has gained with the size and nature of the latter 's business . |
| 23 | On Dec. 24 the Solicitor General , Donatilo — Ballesteros , ordered the dismissal and house arrest of the Attorney General , Rogelio Cruz , on suspicion of the latter 's involvement in authorizing the unfreezing of bank assets amounting to some US$38 million linked to Colombian drug cartels . |
| 24 | The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign . |
| 25 | The workshop probably has its origins a little later than the saltire/interlaced square workshop already mentioned ; indeed , it could have been a product of the latter 's contact with the later phases of the " Orpheus workshop " in c. 325 . |
| 26 | She found more deaths among sexually mature females than among males , which gave a skew in the latter 's favour . |
| 27 | In 1846 he was articled to his father and served for seven years in the latter 's chambers in Gray 's Inn , also attending from 1847 to 1849 the evening lectures on architecture initiated at University College , Gower Street , by T. L. Donaldson [ q.v. ] in 1842 . |
| 28 | The latest squabble between supermarkets and banks over the latter 's unilateral decision to hoist transaction charges may of course make debit cards less attractive to consumers if the charges end up being passed on . |
| 29 | The position of the parties is preserved by allowing them to alter or revoke any third party right without the latter 's consent , unless there is a specific arrangement to the contrary , or evidence that the parties intended otherwise . |
| 30 | Local shell fishermen have clashed with conservationists over the latter 's appeal for an end to shellfish potting in the waters around Skomer Island 's Marine Nature Reserve , south-west Wales . |