Example sentences of "be [prep] the latter [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liver sausage may be firm for slicing or smooth for spreading and most of the continental varieties are of the latter type . |
| 2 | Most actors in soap operas are of the latter school . |
| 3 | ‘ I am in the latter part of my career , not the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 5 | There will be both American and Japanese ranges in the Starfield line and the two guitars we have for review are from the latter source . |
| 6 | If you are in the latter category , we can only sympathise . |
| 7 | While Mulroney appeared to represent the former when he was elected , he has in fact turned out to be of the latter kind , and that exposed position may also have contributed to his loss of support . |
| 8 | If temporary workers are to be brought in , they will press for them to be of the latter category . |
| 9 | I 'll probably be in the latter being short if anyones on the lookout . |
| 10 | I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive ! |
| 11 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 12 | It is with the latter sort of crime fiction that those of us who enjoy writing comedy will have most to do . |
| 13 | It is to the latter pole of the conflict that we must now turn . |
| 14 | It is to the latter process that I now turn . |
| 15 | It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Tewkesbury 's commercial decline began for , at the time of building of Healing 's substantial mills , many of the smaller cottage-based trades disappeared . |
| 16 | Er the other one was towards the latter end of the strike and er this particular area , the Notts area , er had what was called broken away from the er from the main body er of the strike . |
| 17 | It was within the latter context , that Lazarsfeld and his colleagues sought to apply a generic conception of measurement to social phenomena as a means of effecting the link between theorical concepts and the empirical world . |