Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 2 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 3 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He does not narrowly concentrate on the last week of Jesus ' life ; the entire life of Jesus was an example of sacrificial love . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 8 | The pattern will repeat after the last square of the pattern drawing on the right . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Dexter looked back and saw Russell drain off the last drops of his lager . |
| 12 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | See chapter 2 and do not look on the last fortnight as the only time to work , even if it does " concentrate your mind wonderfully " . |
| 15 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 19 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A rubber stamp of these headings , which you can impress on the last sheet of your notes on title and each of which you then tick or mark appropriately , saves undue strain on your memory . |
| 22 | In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments . |
| 23 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 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 | " 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 . " |
| 26 | BELVILLE : Well , be it so , but do n't defer till the last day of the second week . |
| 27 | For most , this does seem like the last ride over the Canadian Pacific . |
| 28 | I can still make a flight back to Blighty which will connect with the last plane to Inverness . |
| 29 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
| 30 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |