Example sentences of "[art] last [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as yesterday 's half-year figures could be the last Tootal releases as an independent company , it is no surprise it worked hard to make them look good . |
| 2 | During the last interglacial reefs occurred ( Fig. 8.35A ) , but with the low sea level of the last glaciation ( Fig. 8.35B ) these were killed off in most areas . |
| 3 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 4 | Waiting at the doorway of the wind beaten mud hut were the last remaining members of his family — his grandparents , who owed their sight problem to cataracts . |
| 5 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
| 6 | Two Colombian journalists , the last remaining hostages of the nine kidnapped by the " Extraditables " group between August and November 1990 , were freed on May 20 in Bogotá , the capital , as the government continued to negotiate with the Medellín and Calí cartels the terms of surrender of leading " drug barons " . |
| 7 | Within minutes the last remaining areas of pink stone flooring were covered with bodies and had turned homespun-white . |
| 8 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 9 | The dam would flood one of the last remaining strongholds of the European lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle , and disrupt the habitat of black storks and wintering cranes . |
| 10 | Mount Apo is also one of the last remaining strongholds of the Philippine eagle , whose numbers have shrunk to around 40 as a result of the widespread deforestation throughout the archipelago . |
| 11 | Towards the end of March , Friedrich von Hayek died : one of the last remaining examples of , in Perry Anderson 's words , ‘ a white emigration that rolled across the flat expanse of English intellectual life ’ . |
| 12 | The dining table is one of the last remaining places for family communication in this day and age . ’ |
| 13 | Canford Heath , on the outskirts of Poole , is one of the last remaining fragments of dry heathland habitat in Britain . |
| 14 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 15 | Lack of garden space precluded any reasonably-sized vat of a permanent nature using brick or block construction — I dare not infringe on the last remaining vestiges of grass . |
| 16 | Even the Emperor himself was struck by this outcry , for in the last remaining days of peace his every appearance on the streets , driving from the Tuileries to Saint Cloud , provoked cries of ‘ A bas la Prusse ! ’ , |
| 17 | Alan Ayckbourn leaves his new play until the last terrible moments when the cast has been assembled and the theatre booked and the tickets sold . |
| 18 | In the last frenzied seconds as the boat tossed I thought Rachel held a pistol pointing at me , but then I saw it was only her glass . |
| 19 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 20 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 21 | A NEW seam of Welsh gold — used for every Royal wedding ring for the last 70 years — has been found at a mine near Dolgellau . |
| 22 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 23 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 24 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 25 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 26 | Niki had his way — in part — and the engine was tried out in the last four races of 1983 : with mixed results . |
| 27 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 28 | Up to this point , Dowland 's piece has been almost exclusively homophonic , but in the last four beats of the third bar quoted above the voices each have slight differences in note-lengths and the placing of syllables . |
| 29 | The last four figures in the right-hand array are given correct to three decimal places and are in fact the exact solution . |
| 30 | For example , the last four pages of Sir Bernard Caulfield 's summing-up to the jury in the Archer case is concerned with damages , and heavily stresses the aggravating factors . |