Example sentences of "latter had been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The latter had been intended for the scrap-yard a short while earlier .
2 In the Czech Lands Civic Forum won about half the total votes , and in Slovakia PAV emerged as the clear winner , although the latter had been expected until shortly before the election to come second to the CDM .
3 The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 .
4 The latter had been informed of L Detachment 's successes and was amenable to the further plans for action which Stirling was ready to put to him .
5 The National Assembly in late April had removed the public security functions of these two paramilitary formations ; in practice , the former now guarded national borders and the latter had been transformed into an internal military police .
6 One hundred and thirteen had been born at term and the others at a median gestational age of 32 weeks ( range 24–36 ) ; none of the latter had been discharged from their neonatal unit on additional inspired oxygen .
7 The latter had been scrapped by the Supreme Council upon its declaration of independence , but Gorbachev now ordered it to be restored .
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