Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you 're starting to talk like that , everyone is discussing it according to their own experience or the last lesson they taught when this came up . |
| 2 | Enjoy the first flowers of Spring or the last leaves of Autumn — on the longest night or the longest day ! |
| 3 | A sense of an ending , a millenarian impulse perhaps , a fear that the Last Days are coming . |
| 4 | I swallowed bitter coffee dregs and the last mouthful of chocolate cake . |
| 5 | Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , Tel , it 's called murder and the last I heard it was certainly against the law . |
| 7 | One colour stands for Jamaica 's natural resources and sunshine , one for its agriculture and hope for the future and the last one for the nation 's past and present troubles . |
| 8 | No he wo n't be up to midnight if he has n't got the car and the last train goes before then . |
| 9 | Hispano Suiza took over the factory and continued producing cars until the last Bugatti appeared on a race track in 1956 . |
| 10 | The penultimate column shows the estimated cost to completion and the last one the budget for the project . |
| 11 | There are some who declare ‘ We believe in Allah and the last day ’ yet they are not true believers . |
| 12 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 13 | My play was my last bid for recognition and the last occasion on which I was prepared to recognise the community in reciprocity . |
| 14 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 15 | Our concern is that the availability of data from the new census , together with the increase in access to computers since the last census , is likely to lead to a veritable orgy of statistical analysis , and , if the past is a reliable guide to the future , this analysis will obscure rather than illuminate fundamental issues in resource allocation . |
| 16 | Any variations in data since the last call was made are checked on-line . |
| 17 | The trial was analysed up to the 31 January 1991 and a minimum of 16 months after the last patient was recruited into the study . |
| 18 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 19 | It was winter and we made an early start , travelling the seventy-odd miles in darkness so as to arrive with time to tackle up and be fishing as the last dregs of darkness dripped away . |
| 20 | A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things . |
| 21 | Okay , go back to work , fully recovered , okay , if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again , due to the same or related condition as the last claim , then we wo n't install , or employ the deferred period , we 'll treat is as a continuation of the previous claim . |
| 22 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 23 | ‘ I just hope we are a bit more successful in this Test than the last two we have played in . |
| 24 | It is in making this adjustment that the last generation of the Dedlocks particularly fails : |
| 25 | The bright day was ruined , and the peace that the last few weeks had given her shattered . |
| 26 | For our purposes , one of the most important characteristics of the Essenes was their apocalyptic vision — their insistence that the Last Times were at hand and that the advent of the Messiah was imminent . |
| 27 | You are following two other companies and the last one is moving their equipment Out as you come into the room . |
| 28 | Next day he broke out in a savage rash , but the move began to Alderney and the last , comfortable , well-solaced years . |
| 29 | ‘ Currently she 's got a lot of our designs in her wardrobe and the last time she was in Australia we had dinner together . ’ |
| 30 | They were not respecters of party lines and the last two in particular were widely distrusted among parliamentary colleagues . |