Example sentences of "the latter [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal concepts , together with the symbolic use of law , play a much greater role in structuring general ideologies in the latter countries ( as Chapters 11 and 13 of this book show ) . |
| 2 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Much of the criticism , however , is directed against the nationalism of the developing countries — against Arab , African or Latin American nationalism , for example — which challenges in various ways the dominance of the industrial capitalist nations ; yet it is evident that nationalism is just as strong in the latter countries , though for good historical reasons ( they are long established , accepted nation states ) it may be less vehemently expressed . |
| 4 | So anyone who pays the bill in full each month and never spreads the payments should pick the Co-op Card or National & Provincial 's card , although the latter offers only a one-year ‘ no fee ’ guarantee . |
| 5 | But now he goes into an all-out attack , arguing that whereas relational properties presuppose the existence of certain non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties , the latter properties do not necessarily demand the existence of any " pluralistically committed " relational properties at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The linguistic forms that are recorded in handbook accounts of change are , for the most part , those that lead to present RP , and not usually those that lead to other modern accents of English ; as we shall notice below , the latter forms are often explicitly rejected from the historical account . |
| 8 | The latter lines are introduced with an echo of the opening couplet : war : prudent , wary |
| 9 | The saltire mosaic from Ashcroft Houses , Cirencester , also suggests some affinity with the geometric decoration of mosaics at Woodchester and Withington ( see above ) , and yet , set against such comparisons , is the complete absence from the latter sites of arrangements of interlaced squares or saltires . |
| 10 | The latter patterns are indicative of considerable three-dimensional order and are typical of polycrystalline samples containing a large number of unoriented crystallites associated with amorphous regions . |
| 11 | The latter criteria obviously has a lot to do with the type of printer that you choose , but several notation programs give a printout that leaves much to be desired — even when the printer is a top of the range laser . |
| 12 | The social movements based upon the latter affiliations , which were discussed in Chapter 2 , have assumed much greater political importance during the past few decades , and their development , like that of youth movements , needs to be examined in relation to wider social changes . |
| 13 | The extra eight minutes in Maxim 's reading are accounted for almost entirely by the first and fourth movements ; the former lacks inner tension , while the latter sags alarmingly in the middle . |
| 14 | The latter concepts , which he dubbed " the Ideas " , have merely a regulative function , in the sense that they direct the activity of the understanding towards the ultimate goals of unity and completeness , which however remain forever outside the reach of " empirical synthesis " . |
| 15 | The latter phenomena have been extensively analysed in the limit B 0 , in which the Ikeda mapping becomes one-dimensional and can be realised in a so-called hybrid system in which the feedback is electronic rather than optical . |
| 16 | Second , a striking difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the former provides no immunity from prosecution , while the latter rules out prosecution ( at least for certain types of agreements ) for a limited period of time . |
| 17 | Ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts . |
| 18 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of [ England ] decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of [ Australia ] , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to [ England ] or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 19 | If , as usually should be the case , the courts of country B decide to return the child to the jurisdiction of the courts of country A , the latter courts will be in no way inhibited from giving permission for the child to return to country B or indeed becoming settled there and so subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of that country . |
| 20 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The latter antibodies have also been detected in serum of non-affected family members of inflammatory bowel disease patients . |
| 23 | In his memoirs Acheson lays much stress on the impact of the House vote and sought to play down criticisms of his own speech of 12 January ; the latter criticisms had focused on Acheson having given encouragement to a North Korean attack by not making clear what the American reaction would be in these circumstances . |
| 24 | The latter provisions are fully explained in Part Two of this book at paragraph 22–46 onwards . |
| 25 | The errors are likely to be more significant during changes of pitch attitude than during manoeuvres involving roll or yaw , since in normal flight configurations the latter manoeuvres tend to be smaller in amplitude and duration than is the case with pitch changes . |
| 26 | Only the latter differences will be inherited . |
| 27 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |
| 28 | Coincidentally management of the latter changes hands about the same time . |
| 29 | In other words , in an oligopolistic framework , the non-equivalence between an optimal tariff and a quota arises since the latter changes the behaviour of the competing firms . |
| 30 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |