Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 2 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 3 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 4 | It is clear from the last sentence in the quotation that Mrs Whitehouse does not view her position in the way some of her critics have done in the past , as reactionary or illiberal . |
| 5 | So what has made advertising so popular in the last number of years ? |
| 6 | At the Court of Wards the Tooke family were making the office of auditor hereditary in the last years of Elizabeth , but it was still possible for an active reformer like John Hare to be appointed Clerk ; inexperienced men began to be appointed to offices in this court under James . |
| 7 | Triangulation is a chain of supplies of goods among three or more parties where the goods are delivered from the first party direct to the last party in the chain . |
| 8 | This has been particularly clear over the last couple of years . |
| 9 | and in who 's arms you 're gon na be so darling save the last dance for me . |
| 10 | I 'm sure the other members of the committee will forgive me if I mention Tracy and David and Norman of the last year as secretary , treasurer and stage director respectively . |
| 11 | The thin , pale sunshine gave little warmth , but it was a welcome extension of the autumn , and unusually fine for the last day of October . |
| 12 | ‘ Keeper Steve Wilson looked comfortable at the last line of defence , making one brave save following a bad backpass from Renninson . |
| 13 | The peacocks wandered poetically by , the cock 's tail and plumage brilliant in the last rays of the sun . |
| 14 | Iris Murdoch 's novel A Fairly Honourable Defeat ( 1970 ) poses the far more terrible hypothesis of a being utterly without compassion who takes delight in wrecking the lives of others : his self-sufficient malignity seemingly motiveless until the last pages of the book , when a tattooed number is noticed on his arm , and a casual remark — ‘ I spent the war in Belsen ’ — forces the reader to think back through his destructive conduct as ‘ an instrument of justice ’ in destroying a happy marriage and endangering a harmonious relationship between two men . |
| 15 | Strategically , the Marne is important for the last line of defence it presents before the Seine . |
| 16 | ‘ I have let this good man die because I was busy with the last details of my case . |
| 17 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 18 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 19 | But what has become evident in the last couple of decades in particular is the scale and pace of agricultural developments which have , and continue to , reduce both the nature conservation and landscape values of many of our upland areas . |
| 20 | If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ? |
| 21 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 22 | The lyrical approach — the rich tone , the singing through the note , the sustained legato , the controlled phrase-endings — is most apparent for the last line of each chorus . |
| 23 | Her mind was preoccupied with the last name on her list . |
| 24 | Superb ‘ Ray has been superb in the last couple of games , and Steve came in and did a good job . |
| 25 | This was far from the last fling of the old system . |
| 26 | The decision to separate was ‘ entirely mutual ’ and was triggered by the accumulated pressure of two very successful careers which had become even more successful in the last couple of years , he added . |
| 27 | Alex had spilled some juice on the table top and was drawing his finger through the orange puddle with enjoyment ; Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast . |
| 28 | It was , for example , quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age ! |
| 29 | Any decision that preparation and presentation should be separate would have to be justified to the public and be open in the last resort to judicial review . |
| 30 | But everything is warm and gilded with the last glow of the sunset , through the room 's west-facing windows . |