Example sentences of "[art] latter [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former related to the quest for spiritual happiness , the latter to the sciences which , in their practical application , helped to constitute a third category of ‘ artificial ’ knowledge . |
| 2 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 3 | For the present , however , the system excludes vehicles , pharmaceuticals and basic foodstuffs , the latter on the grounds that these are already covered by a range of controls . |
| 4 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 5 | He likes watching TV with his father and is keen to talk to the latter about the programmes they see together . |
| 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 the east , in northern Sweden and in Finland , building was in brick , stone or timber ; the two former in larger centres , the latter in the villages . |
| 8 | An attraction of the older cosmology was that heaven and hell were as far apart as possible — the former beyond the outermost sphere , the latter in the bowels of the earth . |
| 9 | The former are bounded by the main stems of the principal Veins , and the latter by the branches of the forked veins . |