Example sentences of "[art] last [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 2 | the last that 's . |
| 3 | And mother was the last that was in that hearse . |
| 4 | The technological universities , as the former Colleges of Advanced Technology , would be the last such redesignations , so there would be no point in joining the queue . |
| 5 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 6 | The last such occasion had been V.E. night , two years before . |
| 7 | The sci-fi movie , filmed at Pinewood Studios , is the last such epic for Sigourney , she says , adding : ‘ I want to do more love stories . |
| 8 | The state election due in November will be the last such ballot before next year 's presidential contest , and the prospect of defeat in Yucatan seems to have rattled Mr Salinas 's government . |
| 9 | So it was on Tuesday the twenty-third of April , 1968 , an occasion given a special fin de siècle luminosity by the knowledge that , for many of us , it was the last such event in our Oxford careers . |
| 10 | The last such mutiny was put down at Burford on the thirteenth of May , 1649 , by Cromwell in person . |
| 11 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 12 | The 300 foot high gum trees on the south west of the island are among the last such reserves in the world ; many are 200-300 years old . |
| 13 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 14 | She is a shrimper and was the last all sail fishing vessel to operate from Great Grimsby fish docks . |
| 15 | Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups . |
| 16 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 17 | For the last several years the transformation has been led by one particular member of that leadership , who was designated the ‘ project manager ’ of the entire change effort . |
| 18 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 19 | Over the last several years 23% more IBMers are working with customers . |
| 20 | ‘ Over the last several decades , there has been a decline , no question about it , in the confidence people have in British institutions , ’ he reports . |
| 21 | ‘ The last several years we 've stood by while Europe spent $26 billion to develop Airbus to push Americans out of work , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 24 | Suppose that for the last several periods of time , real national income has been constant at £l , 000 . |
| 25 | Do n't miss the last this last of the episode ? |
| 26 | It was the last either of them spoke as the Ferrari raced through the night . |
| 27 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 28 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 29 | Lloyd claimed the last half hour , but when he was out at 233 for 4 he indicated that as far as he was concerned that was that . |
| 30 | It was only then that Gazzer remembered what Simon had done : the intense activity of the last half hour had driven it out of his mind . |