Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 27 the Federal Court ruled that the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden should grant women the vote at cantonal and communal level with immediate effect , a decision breaching the last bastion of all-male suffrage in Europe . |
| 2 | An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform , made by Congress in 1989 . |
| 3 | The deal represents the last part of GrandMet 's £550m disposal of Express . |
| 4 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | As the jeep turned the last curve at the foot of the slope the Brigadier braked and pointed . |
| 6 | The Welshman had two chances at the pink to win the last frame of the afternoon but it was Hendry , with pink and black , who went through to play John Parrott in tomorrow 's semi-final . |
| 7 | If some uncertainty surrounds the last stage of the book 's genesis , we can at least say something about its author 's state of mind on the eve of publication . |
| 8 | And the barely legible postmark removed the last shred of doubt about who had sent it . |
| 9 | Our 1910 sample did serve its apprenticeship in trade-union organization , and this episode provides the last chapter in the story . |
| 10 | THE Alvaston Hall has a superb leisure complex offering the last word in relaxation with sauna , jacuzzi , swimming pool and tennis courts . |
| 11 | One single-handed edged weapon — not a two-handed weapon or an axe — can be sharpened with this tool , and this act drains the last magic from it ( other weapons can be sharpened subsequently , but this will not enchant them ) . |
| 12 | A finely planned programme , but the playing lacks the last ounce of distinction and the choice of piano is somewhat curious . |
| 13 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 14 | In 1982 , when the Israeli army surrounded Beirut and the Palestinian guerrillas agreed to leave , I was down in those same front lines , invited by a Palestinian gunman to push the last sandbags from his position now that the final ceasefire had been called . |
| 15 | Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside . |
| 16 | The country 's best known Mao impersonator , an actor called Gu Yue , has made a startling comeback in a new 90-minute epic portraying the last months of China 's civil war . |
| 17 | Past him into the room sailed the last member of the Literary Lionisers ' committee . |
| 18 | This is a good moment to recall the last trickle of white immigration to arouse official panic . |
| 19 | But for other Keynesians , particularly in the United States , the Phillips curve furnished the last equation of the Keynesian model , supplanting once and for all that notorious intruder , the condition . |
| 20 | I carry on munching through my toast , and since there 's no point carrying the last dregs of marmalade to wherever it is we 're going , I scrape an inch-thick layer out of the jar and ask through a mouthful of carbon where the landlord lives . |
| 21 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 22 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 23 | Everyone , myself included , held their breath as the ball swung the last couple of feet towards the cup and disappeared . |
| 24 | It is fruitful to recognise the responsibility people have for their own lives , and the material circumstances in which those lives have been lived , in considering the resources with which a person enters the last stages of life . |
| 25 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 26 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 27 | This gives me the chance to have a last word on the World Cricket Cup final . |
| 28 | Their parody of two drunken journalists provided the Royal couple with a chance to have the last laugh on Fleet Street . |
| 29 | Now come and meet Heather ; she 's in the dining-room having a last word with the catering people . ’ |
| 30 | There was no miracle , although across Western Europe Sunday morning saw the last throws of ‘ the diplomats and the last prayers of the people who believed . |