Example sentences of "[vb -s] at last " in BNC.
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1 | FIRST CRAY-3 SHIPS AT LAST |
2 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
3 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
4 | Some hero has at last heard our cry and painted a blue sky . |
5 | My mind has at last caught up , and indeed overtaken my body . |
6 | After months of turning deaf ears to warnings by the City and industry , the Department of Energy has at last conceded that nuclear plant can not be included in the share float without state support . |
7 | The grave of the athlete Eric Liddell , the man who refused to run in the Olympics on the Sabbath in 1924 and whose story was immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire , has at last been found , unmarked . |
8 | According to Radio Moscow 's Interfax , a news service , and Commersant , a magazine of the Union of Co-operatives , after a five-year dither the Soviet Union has at last opted for a Polish-style Big Bang for its economic reform . |
9 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |
10 | The public breakdown of discipline in the crime-suppression division has at last destroyed the faith of many Thais in the police . |
11 | Perhaps this shows that the popular resentment against politicians ' financial shenanigans — which lost the party control of the upper house of parliament — has at last abated . |
12 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
13 | Into this political maelstrom , Maastricht has at last emerged as an issue , provoking the kind of controversy seen in Britain last year . |
14 | Fortunately their future has at last been settled and work is currently under way converting the mill into council offices . |
15 | A serious feminist critique of masculinity and male power was long overdue ; Lynne Segal has at last provided it . |
16 | The work at Llandrindod Wells lake has at last revealed the answer . |
17 | It does not hold such a prominent place in the village as Christ church near the pond , but nevertheless it is now too small for the congregation , so after years of searching a place has at last been found to build a new larger church on the outskirts of the village . |
18 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
19 | Michael Heseltine has at last secured a job for his leadership campaign manager , Michael Mates , in Northern Ireland . |
20 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
21 | With the talk of ‘ new ’ British soul talent still on the rise ( and much of it obviously focused on Don-E and Omar ) , the name of Noel has at last began to get some recognition . |
22 | THANK God someone has at last written an article attacking the proposed closure of St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
23 | MILLIONAIRE Chris Eubank has at last admitted to an opponent that he ca n't beat — the tax man . |
24 | In Suffolk , we are particularly glad that Customs and Excise has at last been persuaded that horse-racing is an industry not a hobby , and that it will adjust its VAT demands accordingly . |
25 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
26 | PRESSURE from individuals countrywide has at last enabled the matter of Vulcan XH558 to be brought into the new Parliamentary session . |
27 | With Suggs on guest spoken vocals and production credits to Langer and Winstanley , Moz has at last found his true cellmates in Madness . ’ |
28 | ‘ Flying Scotsman 's ’ spare corridor tender has at last been purchased and delivered to the Morpeth works of Ian Storey Engineering . |
29 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
30 | Digital Equipment Corp has at last announced its OSF/1 Unix-based operating system for Alpha-based AXP systems , giving its Alpha hardware customers an alternative to VMS . |