Example sentences of "[art] last [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 2 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 3 | To take one last example , when we read in Canto 101 ( and many other places ) about ‘ Mont Ségur ’ , the gloss we need is in the Michelin Guide to the pyrenees , where we learn that the Château of Mont Ségur saw the last stand of the Cathars or Albigensians , another heretical movement of the Middle Ages which is mysteriously connected with the quest of the grail . |
| 4 | In Butler there was a similar exchange of counter-offers , but here the last communication between the parties , sent by the seller , was a copy of the buyer 's order , signed by way of acknowledgement , together with a covering letter stating that the order was acknowledged , and was being " entered into in accordance with the offer " . |
| 5 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 6 | So we have the great West window of the last judgement with the souls divided and St Michael in the middle holding the scales separating the good from the bad . |
| 7 | He told the committee : ‘ The number of trains run in the off-peak must depend in the last instance on the views of the operator . ’ |
| 8 | Although Denmark and the UK won temporary exemption from lifting internal border controls , Spain refused to sign at the last minute on the grounds that the agreement might prejudice its claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar . ] |
| 9 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 10 | The last day of the finals was blustery and cold . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1989/90 , the last year of the rates , we got just over 1,800 distress warrants the equivalent of liability orders . |
| 12 | As promised last month , here 's the last half of the Blues Brothers solution . |
| 13 | The answer to this must be : ‘ No , for she does not own the last quarter of the gardens . ’ |
| 14 | Look at the Last Night of the Proms from the Albert Hall ; the whole country joins in . |
| 15 | A special event can add excitement , like the jolly festivity of the Last Night of the Proms , or a concert with a world-class soloist , like Placido Domingo , which an attender praises as ‘ much more a social occasion and not a purely listening one ’ . |
| 16 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 17 | His oeuvre has become a sort of national institution that is regarded with affection by a large number of people , something akin to the singing of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ on the Last Night of the Proms . |
| 18 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 19 | This puts me in mind of the last Top of The Pops I watched , a show replete with beflared , poncho 'd , kaftan 'd persons doing psychotropic ‘ dances ’ , tripping out and boogieing at the same time . |
| 20 | In a minute the three of them were huddled in cloaks , by the light of two candles and the last glow of the embers , trying to think quickly . |
| 21 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 22 | One phrase has passed into general circulation : it was Diderot who spoke of ‘ strangling the last king with the guts of the last priest ’ , but , if the phrase is remembered , its author is probably forgotten . |
| 23 | Casby 's agent and rent-collector , who , against his better nature , extracts the last farthing from the inhabitants of Bleeding Heart Yard in order to satisfy his employer 's greed . |
| 24 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 25 | Stag parties and hen parties used to be held the night before the wedding , the last opportunity for the girls and boys to go out , or stay at home , with friends of their own sex . |
| 26 | And then the last item on the NOTES pages of Curve 's itinerary comes back to me : ‘ At a few shows , mainly the universities , alcohol is going to be a problem ’ . |
| 27 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 28 | The last straw for the soldiers was not so much their own suffering as the perception that the home and hearth which , ostensibly , they were fighting to defend , was itself under threat : ‘ You would think they would come to some terms when they see the country in that state . ’ |
| 29 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 30 | In the unpublished ‘ Epilogue ’ to that work , we learn that Shadowfax will be saved too , to be taken on the last ship from the Havens to Aman , simply because Gandalf could not bear the parting . |