Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |
2 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
3 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
4 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
5 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
6 | It is interesting to note that in the last analysis it is evil which is its own undoing . |