Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 2 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 3 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 4 | The whole great crime story wave that began in the last years of the nineteenth century and rose to its towering peak in the 1920s and 1930s began with the short story . |
| 5 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 6 | Set out your work as shown on the last page . |
| 7 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |
| 8 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 9 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 10 | We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’ |
| 11 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
| 12 | All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts . |
| 13 | It is the Norah Batty syndrome , if I may be sexist , where far from losing a million people off the register as happened during the last census because of the poll tax , in the next census men will be sent to the shed at the bottom of the garden to keep out of the way . |
| 14 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 15 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 16 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 17 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 18 | The portrait of the study of social policy as presented in the last few paragraphs shows that it is a subject that draws upon a number of different academic disciplines . |
| 19 | Where the terrain increases in difficulty , or the whole party is forced onto the same flank , the leader climber can place sling and nut runners , which are clipped back down the rope and collected by the last member . |
| 20 | This was anticipated that there would be some add-on to the report that came to the last committee . |
| 21 | For much the same reason as suggested in the last paragraph , this seems a course of action which in practice would be ruled out for many of them by financial constraints : so again , for many , just wishful thinking . |
| 22 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 23 | Tara 's also read the , the promise that comes in the last of that section . |
| 24 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 25 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 26 | Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute . |
| 27 | The themes of quantitative methods , of chronology , of processes and of human activity as reviewed in the last four chapters all have amongst their adherents some who would claim that one of these four was the dominant paradigm for physical geographers . |
| 28 | It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race . |
| 29 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |