Example sentences of "[art] last traces " in BNC.
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| 1 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 2 | But he was n't too keen on the idea of Donald arriving just as Elinor was wiping the last traces of chicken thallium off her lips . |
| 3 | Allow it to wash away the last traces of your old payoff or negative belief . |
| 4 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 5 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 6 | Submission to central authority was deeply ingrained in its 150 years ' history , and the hospital was only now to throw off the last traces of its even more ancient deterrent purpose . |
| 7 | The last traces of independence within the military establishment were removed and the State 's powers of coercion greatly enhanced . |
| 8 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 9 | The last traces of day were gone and the blackness was total , perfect . |
| 10 | Both are more refreshing than a toner — and more effective methods of removing the last traces of make-up and oil . |
| 11 | For a moment he paused , stretching , working the last traces of the drug from his limbs , then crouched , listening again . |
| 12 | Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased . |
| 13 | By the time Huy arrived at the house he was free of the last traces of the tormentors in his head . |
| 14 | The scent of moist earth and crushed stems filled her nostrils , driving the last traces of sleep from her early-morning brain . |
| 15 | Midway through the next morning a footman and a supercilious lady 's maid arrived to collect her few belongings , so that the last traces of her life with them had gone . |
| 16 | She buried herself in the scent of him , and the last traces of control were lost as his hands started to explore the round fullness of her breasts . |
| 17 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |