Example sentences of "to [art] latter [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 2 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 3 | Tom was at his sister 's side , not bothering with the niceties of introducing Belinda , to the latter 's relief . |
| 4 | However , as they are waiting , Sammy 's estranged brother , Lenny Dodds ( John Kay Steel ) , a rich , sensitive television arts executive from London , appears in a bid to reconcile his relationship with his elusive and hostile brother , much to the latter 's chagrin . |
| 5 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 6 | the containment of capitalism within a patrician hegemony [ ideological dominance ] which never , either then or since , actively favoured the aggressive development of industrialism or the general conversion of society to the latter 's values and interests ( 1981 , p. 32 ) . |
| 7 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 8 | Indeed , David Poole sees the distinction between photography and portraiture as vital to the latter 's resurgence . |
| 9 | On Russian television on July 4 , Yeltsin said that Kozyrev 's remarks had been assessed at the Security Council as " harmful " , and suggested that if Kozyrev wanted to " be a prophet like [ Eduard ] Shevardnadze , then act like Shevardnadze " ( a reference to the latter 's resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister in December 1990 after warning of an impending coup — see p. 37903 ) . |
| 10 | A number of disclosures were made between November 1989 and February 1990 of secret arrangements between the government and British Aerospace ( BAe ) in relation to the latter 's purchase of the motor manufacturer Rover Group . |
| 11 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 12 | In the end he sent it , regretfully , to Paul , thus adding to the latter 's troubles . |
| 13 | Joan returned with the lady Alianor to the latter 's apartments in uncustomary silence . |
| 14 | Commenting on these provisions in a case in which , through no fault of the plaintiff , process had failed to reach a defendant in France until some two months after the leaving date , a Dutch court said that ‘ the Convention subordinates the interests of plaintiffs in enforcing their rights as quickly as possible against foreign defendants to the latter 's interest in having an opportunity of defending themselves ’ . |