Example sentences of "[art] last remnants " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 2 | Dragging the last remnants of his determination together , he fixed his eyes on the dark , looming rock and thought , I will . |
| 3 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 4 | THE men at work on the vast steel chemical tanker standing alone among the deserted wharfs of the Clyde are among the last remnants of Scotland 's proud shipbuilding history . |
| 5 | They ousted the Gallic landowners who were the last remnants of the Roman Empire , conquered the Visigoths in the south of France , and fought other Germanic tribes , such as the Burgundians and the Alamanni , who were already settled there . |
| 6 | Near by , in the tell-tale peat , are stands of meadowsweet and sedge , the last remnants of Henley 's ancient marsh , now happily salvaged as an oasis within a new housing estate . |
| 7 | Scraps of sedge and meadow rue still cling to its margins , the last remnants of a marsh which must once have inundated the whole valley floor . |
| 8 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 9 | The dialogue has just begun , but the process is irreversible — a process that will inevitably see the collapse of the last remnants of apartheid , and the emergence of a radically different society . |
| 10 | In the long term , the Prado has also been promised the building now occupied by the Army Museum — one of the last remnants of the 17th-century Palace of El Buen Retiro , whose artist in residence , fittingly enough , was Velazquez . |
| 11 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 12 | It was all the more remarkable given Franco 's condemnation , years earlier , of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish empire , as he saw it , without a fight , and his disapproval of General Primo de Rivera 's decision to withdraw from Morocco in the 1920s . |
| 13 | In minutes the last remnants of life on the planet were gone . |
| 14 | According to Chief Executive Derek Langslow , the use of peat contributes to " the loss of some of the last remnants of Britain 's primeval landscape , and to the destruction of a habitat which required thousands of years to develop " . |
| 15 | The officers on part of the panel have consulted schools very carefully about the last remnants of possible delegation which might arise and the recommendations are as presented to us in red , set out in section three . |
| 16 | And then , as she sat on one of the small bunks and listened as the twins said their prayers , the last remnants of her bruised pride vanished when Ross gave her shoulder a warm , affectionate squeeze . |
| 17 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 18 | And in the vineries built against a south facing wall are peach trees … the last remnants of an era when every large house expected to grow its own peaches , grapes and figs . |
| 19 | THE last remnants of the estate of the troubled Lilley Group were sold yesterday when the entire share capital of Dumfries-based builder Robison & Davidson was bought by a management team led by the managing director , Bob Robison , writes John Hatfield . |