Example sentences of "the last [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Jarman comes dangerously close in the last to propagating the politics of ennui , his visual imagery is anything but predictable . |
| 2 | The project was the last to be approved by the Department of Energy before it disappeared . |
| 3 | A magnificent rotunda as carriage concourse projected from the front of the building , and in 1903 a great single-span train-shed , the last to be built in the United States , was added behind . |
| 4 | Children 's needs are always the last to be considered by architects and planners , ’ says Gordon . |
| 5 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 6 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 7 | Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce . |
| 8 | Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body . |
| 9 | Sarah Duncombe 's two children and boyfriend Adrian Foster were among the last to be moved off a disused farm in Ibstock , Leics . |
| 10 | No. 31 was the last to be broken up in July . |
| 11 | No. 34 was the last to be broken up in June . |
| 12 | ‘ Yow tell yer Dad everythink but I 'm the last to be told . ’ |
| 13 | The law is one of the last to be inspired by the European Commission 's 1989 ‘ Social Charter ’ . |
| 14 | In England , the north-east region was the last to be penetrated fully by the London papers , with Newcastle and Darlington remaining important newspaper cities into the 1980s . |
| 15 | The film , the last to be supervised by Walt Disney , is a colourful romp through Rudyard Kipling 's Mowgli stories . |
| 16 | I always wanted the room at the top of the house so that , when the axe-wielding psycho came in , I 'd be the last to be killed . |
| 17 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 18 | It seems that when a change is in progress , polysyllabic environments will be amongst the last to be affected : thus , the vowel observed in the polysyllable today may be the vowel that was formerly found in other environments . |
| 19 | It is possible to suggest an implicational series , using the symbols suggested in chapter 4.5 : as the rule diffuses through the lexicon , monosyllabic T environments are the first to be affected by it , followed by monosyllabic D environments , with the polysyllables being the last to be affected . |
| 20 | The hand-loom weavers were among the last to be driven into the factories . |
| 21 | The obvious route is often the last to be taken . |
| 22 | This will be the last selection by Ms Eccleshare ( who is now The Bookseller 's children 's book correspondent ) and the last to be copublished by the Children 's Book Foundation and Andersen Press . |
| 23 | Few are fully evergreen ; rather more keep a small proportion of semi-evergreen leaves ( usually the last to be produced in summer ; Savile , 1972 ) that allow them to start photosynthesis as soon as the sun returns . |
| 24 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 25 | By the time he left Tonbridge in July 1940 Keyes had written more than seventy poems , discovered in a manuscript book shortly after the war ; many are inevitably juvenilia , but ‘ Nefertiti ’ , written when he was seventeen , marks an advance towards maturity , and his poem ‘ The Buzzard ’ , the last to be written at Tonbridge , is probably his most accomplished schoolboy work . |
| 26 | Classroom teachers are the last to be considered concerning views on teaching methods , discipline etc . |
| 27 | I find it quite hard going being the first up every morning and then the last to bed after walk and doing the washing up machine and so on . |
| 28 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 29 | Norway , Iceland and Japan had proposed that they be allowed to resume limited hunting of minke whales , the smallest of the great whales and the last to be hunted commercially before the moratorium went into effect . |
| 30 | Cheng and Teo were the last to be released of 22 people detained in 1987 for their involvement in the " conspiracy " [ see p. 35462 ] . |