Example sentences of "[art] last vestiges " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 2 | It was goodbye to the last vestiges of pre-war LMS and LNER designs , and even the slam-door concept that the Southern Railway bequeathed to its nationalised successor was displaced from many important commuter routes . |
| 3 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 4 | Gone were the last vestiges of normality . |
| 5 | The Utterwords and the Hushabyes represent , respectively , the last vestiges of Colonialism and Bohemianism . |
| 6 | Critics fear the new scheme will remove the last vestiges of strategic planning power : although the new county planning statements will have to cover housebuilding , large industrial and commercial development , and Green Belt issues , they will have no statutory force and can not include detailed land allocations . |
| 7 | By the last vestiges of twilight he consulted his waterlogged watch . |
| 8 | Victorian sewers , water mains , railways , sea walls , reservoirs and Canals are the last vestiges of British empire-building . |
| 9 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 10 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 11 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 12 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 13 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 14 | The last vestiges of their former jolly sound has been drowned in swathes of layered , fuzzy guitar and Julianne sounds as if she 's had a surgical appliance attached to her vocal chords . |
| 15 | With a Bolshevik victory in the civil war and Lenin 's death , the last vestiges of collective party leadership were swept away by the growth of Joseph Stalin 's absolute monocratic dictatorship . |
| 16 | America , Russia , Britain and France divided the country into occupation zones , destroyed the last vestiges of Nazi authority and set up their own military government . |
| 17 | Already , it has been stated that ‘ the last vestiges of rural depopulation seem now to be rapidly disappearing ’ ( Robert and Randolph 1983 , p. 90 ) . |
| 18 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 19 | Several writers , in the discussion , had urged the CPSU to adopt its own ‘ Bad Godesberg ’ , after the German Social Democratic Programme of 1959 in which the last vestiges of that party 's Marxist heritage had been discarded . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me about the book , ’ Connelly said , the last vestiges of reason working in his tortured mind . |
| 21 | ‘ He vanished then , ’ said Raynor , ‘ and with his going , the last vestiges of the Draoicht Suan vanished . |
| 22 | They often represent the last vestiges of the ancient practice of hacking back the vegetation along well-used tracks . |
| 23 | I destroyed the last vestiges of that organisation two days back . |
| 24 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 25 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 26 | She clung to the last vestiges of reality . |
| 27 | And then he gave a small moan and the last vestiges of restraint were gone . |
| 28 | Robyn let out a deep breath as she strolled up the dusty track , forcing her inflamed body to relax in the last vestiges of evening sun . |
| 29 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 30 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |