Example sentences of "in [pron] final [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 2 | In their Final Examinations , Robyn obtained a First — her marks , she was unofficially informed , were the highest ever achieved by a student in the School of European Studies in its short history — and Charles an extremely high Upper Second . |
| 3 | These results suggest that unqualified mature students do not perform as well in their final examinations as qualified mature students or for that matter standard entry students . |
| 4 | One would be the version to be found in the published research papers , those strange constrained pieces of writing whose conventions are as rigid as a sonnet , whose scientific account is always a set of clearly designed , unambiguously conducted and conclusive observations , building from earlier data and , in their final paragraphs , pointing the way to future experiments ( ‘ more research is needed to … ’ ) . |
| 5 | David and Gary are in their final years , and playing at Queen 's makes sense from an academic point of view . |
| 6 | All biennials are best placed in their final quarters by the end of the month , and firm planting is extremely important . |
| 7 | A couple of days after the riot was over , the streets of South Central , Los Angeles , offered a visual detective story , in which final chapters and final questions often came in the form of a shattered plate window or a burned-out shop front . |
| 8 | The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book . |
| 9 | And in her final words to Wilekin in this exchange she manages to give an ambiguous hint that she may be prepared to entertain Wilekin — along with her husband : ( " You could go home , dear brother . |
| 10 | This is the fear that haunts President Aquino in her final days in Malacanang Palace before presidential elections on May 11 . |
| 11 | SO TRAGIC : In her final days |
| 12 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 13 | Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke said in the Commons yesterday that Whitehall 's examination of the application for 400 more officers was in its final stages . |
| 14 | Although the launch date for Windows NT is yet to be released , the system is in its final stages of development and was certainly put through its paces at the exhibition . |
| 15 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 16 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 17 | The committee made no allusion to the former President in its final conclusions . |
| 18 | Although some pieces of legislation were passed in its final days , including numerous appropriations bills , several measures were killed by Republican filibustering . |
| 19 | When I lived there , the Soviet Union was labouring in its final throes and the parades were desperate assertions rather than celebrations . |
| 20 | As dusk drew in its final flecks of gold |
| 21 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 22 | He calls , rightly , for the exposure and elimination of such idolatry and in his final chapters shows how a new science , recognising its own metaphorical nature and its own limitations , can provide more meaning and significance to human likes than the old physics did . |
| 23 | Howard 's friend and drinking buddy , William Holden , was less fortunate in his final moments . |
| 24 | He says he 's not a proud man but he 'll pass you his watch , adding cryptically that ‘ the front 's for sale , the back is n't ’ , and you 'll discover from the inscription that it was a gift from TMcL for gaining distinction in his final exams in 1961 . |
| 25 | And what was the greater plan that Chant hoped in his final hours he was a part of ? |
| 26 | In his final arguments in the three-day hearing , Gavin Lightman QC , for the magazine , said that if a retrial was ordered it intended to subpeona the editor of the Mail on Sunday , Stewart Steven , and two senior journalists from the company in an effort to discover the truth behind a £25,000 payment to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 27 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 28 | A person in his final days , thinking about good and evil and all the usual fare . ’ |
| 29 | One of Frankie 's greatest fears in his final days was letting people down . |
| 30 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |