Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 2 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 3 | In the years when no rain occurs between the last spraying of the vine and the harvest , the first sixty-five litres of the cuvée will often be tapped off and added to the taille . |
| 4 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 5 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 6 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 7 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 8 | In the Dodds case the House of Lords stated that if the month in which the period expires has no corresponding date because it is too short , the period given by the notice ends on the last day of that month , ie 28 February or 29 February in a leap year . |
| 9 | After the music stops for the last time the first man to return the ladies ' shoes and collect up all his clothing is allowed to kiss every woman in the room ! |
| 10 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 11 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 12 | The first Attic black-figure coincides with the last phase of the old Geometric and orientalising tradition of the monumental grave-vase . |
| 13 | In particular , you will probably have good reason to complain if your employer departs at the last minute from an approach to the selection process that has previously been announced . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 15 | His three customers on the plane were a woman who had changed her travel plans at the last minute and a married couple starting a world tour . |
| 16 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 17 | Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity . |
| 18 | Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century . |