Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the last [noun] of " 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 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He does not narrowly concentrate on the last week of Jesus ' life ; the entire life of Jesus was an example of sacrificial love . |
| 5 | The pattern will repeat after the last square of the pattern drawing on the right . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Dexter looked back and saw Russell drain off the last drops of his lager . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 17 | " 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 . " |
| 18 | BELVILLE : Well , be it so , but do n't defer till the last day of the second week . |
| 19 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is to the history of some of these works that one must turn for the last part of the story . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |