Example sentences of "the latter [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways the latter offered more short-term gains and also suffered less opposition from the Japanese state and the US Occupation . |
| 2 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 3 | A substantial proportion of educational costs was transferred to local authorities at the end of 1921 , although the latter had neither sufficient financial nor administrative means to carry out their new assignments . |
| 4 | Finally , over the devastated battlefield and the approach roads — the latter rendered quite chaotic by the even more viscous mud of the Woevre , and clogged with the moving gun-teams — it was impossible to bring up enough ammunition to sustain anything like the rate of fire of the first four days . |
| 5 | The latter became increasingly ritualised , with processions and effigies of the unpopular to be burnt . |
| 6 | This Hurricane was badly damaged , and ran into a parked aircraft ; fortunately the latter suffered only minor damage . |
| 7 | But it can be said that enjoyment of pornography , at any level , only becomes deviant when it replaces normal sexual activity or when the latter becomes totally dependent upon pornography for initial excitation/maintenance of stimulus . |
| 8 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 9 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 10 | The reason why the latter seem more likely is that it is on these major industries that much of the future competition among states for wealth-creating resources will be focused . |
| 11 | This argument is based on the fact that X-cells have better spatial resolution than Y-cells while the latter have better temporal resolution , plus the fact that Y-cells tend to respond only transiently to sustained contrast . |
| 12 | In a climate of radical spending cuts , the latter seems highly unlikely . |
| 13 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 14 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 15 | The latter seems more likely . |
| 16 | For the brilliantly successful or the politically fortunate there are the offices of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and about 110 superior judgeships , the latter carrying very comfortable stipends , plus pensions . |
| 17 | The latter includes both young and mature students with normal entry qualifications . |
| 18 | As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness . |