Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] latter [unc] " in BNC.

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1 He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is .
2 Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed .
3 We can see from the latter 's evocative landscape , Figure with Birds , that , in Britain at any rate , Surrealism served to refresh the romantic imagination .
4 In the end he sent it , regretfully , to Paul , thus adding to the latter 's troubles .
5 The Honorat regime had threatened to arrest members of the legislature if they tried to ratify the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Aristide , providing for the latter 's eventual return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] .
6 No mention was made of the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , providing for the latter 's return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] .
7 ODDLY , the address file would not go into the address book application , for reasons ( I assume ) to do with the latter 's format demands .
8 This stems from the latter 's requirement that the shares must be freely marketable .
9 The passage below illustrates the stylistic interest of Golding 's novel : it deals with the prehistoric struggle for survival between homo sapiens and Neanderthal man , resulting in the latter 's extinction .
10 The shortfall was accompanied by a general reduction in Arab countries ' regular aid disbursements to Jordan , resulting in the latter 's appeal for more funds on May 28 , 1990 at the Arab League summit in Baghdad , the Iraqi capital [ see p. 37473 ] .
11 Elster 's critique of functionalism is largely based on the latter 's absence of an ‘ explanatory mechanism ’ between the structure at issue and its reproduction-enabling effects .
12 There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room .
13 The Béarnais of Pyrénées-Atlantique is the only purebred remnant of the original yellow-brown , pink-muzzled Pyrenean Blond , a breed which was otherwise absorbed by the Blonde d'Aquitaine ; indeed the Béarnais itself is registered in the latter 's herdbook .
14 Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " .
15 Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating .
16 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 .
17 The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 .
18 George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books .
19 It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize .
20 The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit .
21 But it contrasts with the latter 's general emphasis on religion as an abortive form of protest by the underprivileged : ' … the sigh of the oppressed creature , the sentiment of a heartless world , and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people ! ’
22 NHB undertook to return the funds to ANZ if an arbitration panel ruled in the latter 's favour .
23 The corporate ideology is public service broadcasting : this entails the provider deciding what the purchaser ought to listen to or watch , rather than being led by the latter 's clear preference .
24 Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise .
25 Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove .
26 Stand out track is ‘ Jam To It Again ’ , which mixes well with ‘ Thunder ’ from RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE 's recent ‘ In Dub ’ LP , both tracks being haunted by the latter 's ‘ Phantom ’ groove .
27 As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world .
28 Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert .
29 Nizan 's systematic refusal to countenance hostile assessments of the developing Soviet state was again illustrated in 1937 when he was called upon to carry out the difficult task of responding to Andre Gide 's highly critical view of the Soviet Union articulated in the latter 's Retour de l'URSS .
30 The difference between the old Keynesian and the new Keynesian approaches arises from the latter 's retention , albeit in radically modified form , of the notion of an equilibrium unemployment rate , and the former 's wholesale rejection of the usefulness of the NAIRU concept .
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