Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse .
2 I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country .
3 The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian .
4 In the Wessex Dairies case , it was found that on the last day of his employment as a milkman the defendant , whilst on his round , informed customers that he would soon cease to be employed by the plaintiffs , that he was going to set up business on his own and could supply them with milk .
5 The hon. Gentleman has clearly not observed that in the last year inflation has fallen to 4 per cent .
6 On the contrary , it is assumed that in the last resort truth is a matter of individual consciences where all consciences are held , by an act of faith , to be equal either in the sight of God or in the sight of man .
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