Example sentences of "be [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 32 | Even if the Germans were at last being pushed back , there were still the Japanese to demolish , and they were no soft touch by all accounts . |
| 33 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 34 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 35 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 36 | Hopeful signs that consumers were at last starting to put their hands in their pockets helped to breathe new life into the brewers and stores . |
| 37 | ‘ We felt that the prices of leisure assets were at last reflecting their true value , ’ says Mr Irens . |
| 38 | On the day the lights were at last put up , Ceauşescu appeared and showed his displeasure with the design . |
| 39 | On Friday , 10 March , by which time Pons was becoming convinced that their hopes were at last being confirmed , Ron Fawcett , the US editor of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , called him on a personal matter . |
| 40 | He lay watching me with eyes that were at last getting drowsy . |
| 41 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 42 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 43 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 44 | Mr Ramaphosa suggested that the government timed the arrests in order to delay the talks precisely when they were at last poised for a breakthrough . |
| 45 | Princes were at last within reach of achieving their ends — or some of them — without having to resort to lengthy persuasion , to bribery or to the use of force . |
| 46 | Particular groups the blacks , women , recent immigrants — felt that their special needs were at last getting some attention in Washington , and they too voted for Roosevelt . |
| 47 | Instead of untried young men , we were at last to have a pro , and moreover , one with an excellent voice . |
| 48 | Several other people had arranged to share cars and after a good deal of last-minute discussion and instructions , they were at last on their way . |
| 49 | Many faiths were broken before the people became convinced of the truth of the Myrcans ’ mission , but after a while , when no Myrcan had turned against the righteous lords , and they had not tried to usurp the rule of the Dales and the Vale , then they were at last accepted . |
| 50 | The human figures found at Entremont indicate that the Celts were at last persuaded to abandon their prejudice against the representation of the human form . |
| 51 | As he reached his door he found his thoughts turning once more to the urgent problem of putting food in his belly , and a part of his mind registered with pleasure that these thoughts were at last supplanting the ones in which he alternately pined for Aset and visited unholy vengeance upon her . |
| 52 | ‘ You know , I 'm getting quite used to this invisible business , ’ Mitch muttered to Maggie when they were at last settled to their table . |
| 53 | Ironically , though Mr H did not know it , mental-health reformers in Japan were at last making some headway . |
| 54 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 55 | Central bankers were also concerned in the spring of 1991 that the German government might attempt to stave off the pressure on the mark by raising interest rates , a move which they felt would further depress the prospects for world economic growth ; by April , however , it appeared that global interest rates were at last starting to come down , with particularly strong declines in the United Kingdom , the United States and France . |
| 56 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 57 | Churchill gave Attlee one last boost when they were both back in London and the election results — postponed for three weeks owing to the need to bring from abroad the postal votes of the forces serving overseas — were at last declared . |
| 58 | In Europe the occupying powers were at last able to agree on a peace treaty with Austria . |
| 59 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 60 | The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded . |