Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice the demands of the administration made the latter appointment impractical . |
| 2 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
| 3 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 4 | Buried treasure : in a happy mix of old and new , the Eagle Warehouse 's 19th-century facade — complete with sandstone eagle — is cocooned inside the modern glass of the Eagle Building The latter provide splendid views along one of Glasgow 's principal office streets and over the rooftops of BP 's offices across the street . |
| 5 | If the draftsman chooses the latter course it is suggested that the tenant be permitted to display any advertisement permitted by the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 ( SI No 666 ) . |
| 6 | Arsenal have done well with the former , Liverpool in the past took the latter path with great success . |
| 7 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 8 | In modelling consumer 's expenditure , the project follows the latter route which has a good theoretical pedigree . |
| 9 | In the present case there were clearly grounds for doubts about whether the accounting period ended on 25 October 1977 or 31 January 1978 , W believing the former and the company contending the latter . |
| 10 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 11 | The prohibitions in question were those against parricide and incest ; but of these that against incest had priority because it was the occasion for the temptation to commit the latter . |