Example sentences of "[subord] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | An English style of demi-caractëre dance is not always very obvious except in the hornpipe and in Ashton 's Harvest , Maypole and Morris Stick Dance in La Fille Mal Gardée , where the last two vary very little from the traditional versions . |
| 2 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 3 | Uralmash , short for the Urals heavy machine-building factory , is based in Yekaterinburg , a grimy industrial city where the last Tsar and his family were shot and Boris Yeltsin began his career . |
| 4 | For example , where the last ice age was taking place in Europe , then you can see the signal of the lower temperatures in the oceans off north west Africa in the form of this sediment signal . |
| 5 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 6 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 7 | Taking lifetime consumption , this is defined as where the last term represents the present value of wealth passed on ( r being taken here as the interest rate per generation ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you will find that the area marked out is intended as a viewing platform in order to see over King William 's Glen where the last major military engagement in Ireland was fought , ’ he instructed quietly . |
| 9 | It was no doubt less advanced in its industrial organisation than Lancashire , where the last of the surviving handloom weavers were absorbed into other employment in the 1850s , but it would be unrealistic to claim that it was not industrial . |
| 10 | Where the last counter-offer came from the seller , the buyer will accept that offer , and create the contract , when he takes delivery of the goods from the seller , or ( if earlier ) when he pays for them . |
| 11 | As is well known , English is not one of those languages where word stress can be decided simply in relation to the syllables of the word , as can be done in French ( where the last syllable is usually stressed ) , Polish ( where the syllable before the last — the penultimate syllable — is stressed ) or Czech ( where the first syllable is stressed ) . |
| 12 | In the case of joint tenancy , on the other hand , the rights of each ( except the last survivor ) are extinguished by his death so as to increase the interest of the survivor or survivors . |
| 13 | All speakers , except the last two , are partners at Cameron Markby Hewitt . |
| 14 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |
| 15 | EACH new indignity in the heap visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last . |
| 16 | ‘ I figured I 'd better get started before I ended up like Brahms or something , ’ he deadpans in a voice that betrays his Welsh origins ( he was born in 1942 in Garnant ) rather than the last 25 years living in New York . |
| 17 | But the interventions , each one usually more radical than the last , were more a sign of growing frustration at the centre . |
| 18 | By this time I was shaking and each new thud seemed louder and more terrifying than the last . |
| 19 | But if each generation is heavier than the last , as is the case with quarks , then the third-generation neutrino could well be heavy enough to make W=1 . |
| 20 | These affairs , she complained , were even less real than the last lot . |
| 21 | They were all codes meaning : ‘ Yes , I 'll go higher than the last bidder . ’ |
| 22 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 23 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 24 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 25 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 26 | Turnout was 81 per cent , two per cent higher than the last general election . |
| 27 | Located partly in America and partly in Rupert Thomson 's fertile imagination , the place is crawling with funeral parlours and peopled by characters each more disturbed than the last . |
| 28 | Early successes are built upon , as different audiences are superimposed , each clapping a little louder than the last , a crescendo rising . |
| 29 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 30 | Further along the shoreline a wave crashed , followed by another , louder than the last . |