Example sentences of "the latter [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that he was definitely persona non grata with Rhee and that the latter would bring in his ‘ carpetbaggers ’ if he won the election , meaning Rhee 's supporters in the United States , Hawaii and China . |
| 2 | The latter would have overall administrative control and would be responsible to MEHQ for advising on technical and operational matters . |
| 3 | The latter would receive around fourteen rupees per day . |
| 4 | The processor contains circuitry to request the next instruction from the store , and to receive , decode , and execute it ; the latter may require further read or write accesses to the store , or interaction with a transput unit . |
| 5 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 6 | The latter will carry out a small number of random spot checks to verify a company 's samples . |
| 7 | The former has already been considered ( paragraph 9–15 above ) and the latter will figure prominently in following chapters . |
| 8 | The former is more suitable for use with heavyweight curtains , but the latter will operate more silently . |
| 9 | Thus if teachers ' expectations in a school or class are low , in relation to the potential educational performance of working-class children , it is quite possible that the latter will respond accordingly . |
| 10 | Whereas the former can be particularly damaging in terms of land-take and car-dependence , the latter can utilise already urbanised land , reduce town-centre traffic and benefit from public transport systems . |
| 11 | The latter can take up to six months to complete . |
| 12 | The latter can help enormously in assessing students ' exam prospects . |
| 13 | The former benefited from the full market value of his site in residential use , whereas the latter could benefit only from its existing use value . |