Example sentences of "see [prep] the last [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy .
2 In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments .
3 They are seen as the last defence of standards .
4 Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration .
5 Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort .
6 Wandsworth was the first new store to open with staff wearing the new design , as seen in the last issue of the Journal .
7 Last year the pharmaceutical sector in both the UK and America provided investors with significant profits following the strong price rises seen in the last quarter of 1991 .
8 In instrumentalist writings the state is seen in the last resort as a unified organization .
9 Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own .
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