Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the latter " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was attracted to the latter 's extravagant precepts on style , in contrast to Pater : ‘ What a small man Pater is . |
| 2 | Newman was overwhelmed by the latter and wrote in The Sunday Times : ‘ Strictly speaking no art is translatable into another , not even poetry into music . |
| 3 | But to say it was superseded by the latter in the seventeenth century is not entirely true . |
| 4 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |
| 5 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 6 | Moreover the effect of the statute , in preventing the separation between legal and equitable estates in the cases to which it applied , was nullified in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the decision of the Chancery to protect trusts declared upon the uses which the statute had turned into legal estates . |
| 7 | It was written during the latter part of 1913 and the first half of 1914 and for part of that time the author was travelling in Austria . |
| 8 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 9 | Nothing was found at the latter two yesterday morning . |
| 10 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 11 | A vast inshore field of Scottish genius was struck in the latter part of the 18th century . |
| 12 | These reached a peak during the truce of 1444–49 , but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year . |
| 13 | Leader of the State Council Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to the latter position — effectively a presidential role — with over 95 per cent of the vote . |
| 14 | An upturn in tonnages was recorded in the latter part of the decade , however , and the threat of at least one further pipeline receded when Total Oil renewed a major contract with BR in 1988 . |
| 15 | The Power Challenge series uses the high-end TFP variant of Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 RISC — MIPS began development of the part in conjunction with Silicon Graphics before it was acquired by the latter — which is optimised for floating point performance . |
| 16 | The predominance of Russia was overtaken during the latter half of the nineteenth century by a succession of gold rushes to more or less remote parts of the world colonized predominantly by the British . |
| 17 | It was returned to the latter and the purchaser brought an action against the seller under section 12 . |