Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 2 | John Nef , in his Wiles Lectures of 1956 , concluded that , if we seek the origins of our modern quantitative-mindedness , we must concentrate on the last decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | He told the committee : ‘ The number of trains run in the off-peak must depend in the last instance on the views of the operator . ’ |
| 4 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 5 | It is to the history of some of these works that one must turn for the last part of the story . |
| 6 | I and some others have tried to do something about it because you 'll remember in the last year last two years , we have put in a a sum of money in the budget to increase the allowances for members and for resources to support members . |
| 7 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 8 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 9 | You do n't need to go actually to the end with your numbers but you can take your line right along there cos you might find at the last minute there 's an extra one you want to put on . |
| 10 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 11 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Anything could happen on the last hole at Royal St. George 's , with its six bunkers , the out-of-bounds line twelve yards beyond the green and the ever-present Duncan 's Hollow . |
| 14 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 15 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 16 | I shall return in the last part of this book to discuss the realistic potential for both the renewables and conservation in more detail and within a non-nuclear energy policy . |
| 17 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 18 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 19 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |
| 20 | These , felt Lydia , would rise on the last day , climbing briskly out of their coffins , brushing away the mould of corruption and muttering , ‘ About time too . ’ |
| 21 | The pattern will repeat after the last square of the pattern drawing on the right . |
| 22 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |
| 23 | The printer will stop after the last row and not move the paper . |
| 24 | Yesterday , however , American announced that the Stansted–Chicago service will end with the last flight on May 31 — putting the jobs of 50 ground staff at risk . |
| 25 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |
| 26 | Right , members will recall from the last meeting , there was an issue of it at Shrewsbury College , because of the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to the college , or the College 's claim to the transfer of the screw and ribbon factory to them , because of the er , the cre the vesting of the College as an in independent body under the Higher Education Act . |
| 27 | You can indicate a specific start point for the list by supplying a start Client identifier ; if not , the list will start at the last Client created who was associated with the specified Product . |
| 28 | ‘ She has a character of iron , like me , and will fight to the last ditch . |
| 29 | They ask the Duke to do away with the Act , because it will turn the Atholl Highlanders into slaves , and if he will not , they will fight to the last drop of their blood . ’ |
| 30 | Or if in doubt , you can search from the last date of any registration disclosed ( of registration of the seller or of a mortgage , etc ) . |