Example sentences of "the latter [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a climate of radical spending cuts , the latter seems highly unlikely . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The latter seems more likely . |
| 8 | The latter includes both young and mature students with normal entry qualifications . |
| 9 | The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae , lichens and mosses in varying combinations ; the latter includes only one subformation , involving the two antarctic flowering plants , the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis . |
| 10 | As long as the latter enjoys only modest powers , the election of its members will not be taken with full seriousness . |