Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , the signal size and speed of response may be crucially modified by the latter . |
| 2 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 3 | If , as appears likely , it only applies to the latter case , can it be invoked by any Member State or only by a Member State which voted against the legislation ? |
| 4 | He was much struck by the latter , turning them over and myopically examining their patterns . |
| 5 | The argument put forward by the lowlanders , that they were being flooded out by water sent down to them by those living higher up the hill , was naturally resisted by the latter . |
| 6 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | I shall only deal with the latter trend . |
| 8 | On the whole the royal courts of Europe were more concerned to administer than to define the law : as in canon law , there was no clear distinction between legislative and judicial functions , and so the former was normally hidden in the latter . |
| 9 | In the end he sent it , regretfully , to Paul , thus adding to the latter 's troubles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Directional planning involves identifying barriers and potentials and choosing a course in order to overcome the former and make best use of the latter . |
| 12 | There are clearly strong links between the ideal of the rule of law and concepts of natural law , and many of the questions that we have already posed in the latter context could be reiterated here . |
| 13 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 14 | On the other hand , and directly related to the latter , whereas in the known sector females were three times more likely to have been introduced to heroin by their partner rather than a friend , amongst the snowball females , just as many females were introduced by a friend as by a partner . |
| 15 | However , we usually refer to the latter in the text , as it has a number of additional features of interest , such as paging and segmentation . |
| 16 | There is , therefore , active discrimination against black workers in both manual and non-manual occupations , being probably more pronounced in the latter . |
| 17 | It is thus more suited to the latter stages of design , when the problem has been explored and the parameters and constraints are well defined . |
| 18 | The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident . |
| 19 | In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection . |
| 20 | The most important project on which he acted as contracting mason only was the building of the library at Trinity College ( 1676–84 ) to the design of Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] , and he was also associated with the latter over some work at Ely Cathedral ( 1699 ) . |
| 21 | On Jan. 1 Bhanu Pratap Singh resigned as Governor of Karnataka and was replaced by Khurshid Alam Khan , governor of Goa , who also remained in the latter post . |
| 22 | It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University . |
| 23 | Cautiously opting for the latter view , Larry bends the laws of astrophysics to construct a theory of subjectivity through the metaphoric lens of the uncertainty principle : |
| 24 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 25 | As we have seen , NAB itself may well move in the latter direction , and possibly the former also . |
| 26 | As the 1950s progressed , therefore , new power station investment was increasingly concentrated on the latter areas . |
| 27 | His first visit on Oct. 4-5 , including talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 5 , had been preceded by a stop in Amman on Oct. 3 , where he met both King Hussain ( reportedly proposing to the latter the convening of an Arab conference on the Gulf crisis ) , and the PLO leader Yassir Arafat ( who , like Primakov , travelled on to Baghdad ) . |
| 28 | For one corporeal hereditament to fall within the curtilage of another the former must be so intimately associated with the latter as to lead to the conclusion that the former in truth forms part and parcel of the latter ( Methuen-Campbell v Walters ) . |
| 29 | Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism . |
| 30 | Microscopically it is most readily distinguished from the latter by having long narrow spicules . |