Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 2 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 3 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 4 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 5 | Following disturbances in October 1989 , major stock markets around the world remained strong at the end of the year , with some reaching historical peaks in the last week of 1989 and the first week of 1990 . |
| 6 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 7 | The gasometer was rebuilt after being badly damaged by German bombs during the last war . |
| 8 | That was where I got all the old aerosols for the last War , not to mention several important parts of the Wasp Factory , including the Face itself . |
| 9 | ‘ Comrade Rakowski ( the party leader ) set the precedent for this by allowing some foreign journalists into the last meeting of the Central Committee , ’ he explained nervously . |
| 10 | The Tory-held seats at the last election which Labour would expect to win in the North-East are Darlington , Tynemouth , and Langbaurgh . |
| 11 | It was 27 days since Rashid had left his office at Iraqi Airlines for the last time . |
| 12 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 13 | Experts were virtually unanimous that ancient woodland " a remnant of the forests that covered the British Isles after the last ice age and undisturbed for 8,000 years " could not be recreated , he said . |
| 14 | Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another . |
| 15 | Today treat yourself to your favourite menus of the last week — any breakfast , lunch or dinner — or try my special menu designed to mark your achievement so far . |
| 16 | On the western side , below the caves of Médous — discovered only in 1948 and spared , therefore , from the loss of their ‘ crystalline beauties ’ to the English vandals of the last century — there is a lovely quiet road along the valley of the Lesponne , an ideally leafy cul-de-sac , leading to the hamlet of Chiroulet close under the northern face of the Pic du Midi ; from there you can walk up to another of the more visited Pyrenean lakes , the Lac Bleu ( though this is a longish , moderately gruelling climb , involving an ascent of nearly 3,000 feet ) . |
| 17 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 18 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 19 | Women as authors are n't unveiled any longer ; this has been one of the marked developments of the last decade . |
| 20 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 21 | We shall have to do three old ones from the last couple of years and get the costumes and sets from Vienna as usual . |
| 22 | IF YOU vote for your top videos of the last year and you could be driving a brand new SEAT Ibiza 1.2 SLXi ! |
| 23 | The craft was introduced to the island by British residents in the last half of the nineteenth century |
| 24 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 25 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 26 | The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) won Lower Saxony from the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , which had held it since the mid-1970s ( in coalition with the Free Democrats since the last state election in 1986 — see pp. 34503-04 ) ; the SPD also retained its absolute majority in North Rhine-Westphalia ( with 11,000,000 voters Germany 's most populous state ) , where it had held control for 24 years . |
| 27 | And from the cards , Er can you tell me roughly how much you have spent on British definitives in the last year if anything ? |
| 28 | Natural science is happy to take a spectator 's view of the workings of nature , and any retreat , as in quantum theory in physics or for the philosophical reasons in the last chapter , is reluctant . |
| 29 | The proliferation of personal computers in the last decade has often , embarrassingly , gone with an actual diminution in methodological sophistication . |
| 30 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |