Example sentences of "[pers pn] is the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the purchaser is to try to ensure that his is the last counter-offer , so that it will be accepted by the conduct of the seller , the device of sending back another acknowledgement does not work well in practice . |
| 2 | She is the last woman I saw . |
| 3 | Anna 's family are all dead and she now believes that she is the last person left in the world . |
| 4 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 5 | Now 92 , she is the last surviving member of what came to be dubbed ‘ the Glasgow Girls ’ , the group who went through Glasgow School of Art during the early part of the century . |
| 6 | It is the last bit of that sentence which contains the punch . |
| 7 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 8 | It is the last leg of an interview marathon which began this summer , when Cooltempo , anticipating an earlier release for the record , flew a plane-load of Britain 's music press out to meet her in New York . |
| 9 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 10 | With its 700-feet-long façade and 600-feet-long porte cochère , it is the last word in grandiose monumentalism . |
| 11 | It is the last bastion against all these evils , and will remain so as long as it keeps acquiring books it does not have when they are found and brought to it . |
| 12 | Desirable , that is , only to seekers after adventure ; to the majority of others it is the last place on earth deserving a visit . |
| 13 | It is the last exhibit in the show — an alcohol-vapour cloud chamber that displays continuously the tracks of the Earth 's background irradiation and made by the Phywe company , West Germany . |
| 14 | It is the last in a fine series says the author , ‘ until Gloucestershire win that damned elusive Championship ’ . |
| 15 | It is the last paragraph of the poem . |
| 16 | It is the last thing I expected him to do . |
| 17 | It is the last question that is my theme , because that is where the spotlight currently falls . |
| 18 | It is the last part of the rationalisation that took place after the merger of Beecham and SmithKline Beckman in 1989 . |
| 19 | ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do . |
| 20 | In general , though , it is the last male to mate that fathers most offspring . |
| 21 | Not only does Mrs Whitehouse believe that Christianity is under threat from political revolution , but also that it is the last line of defence against such revolution . |
| 22 | It is the last place they want to be . |
| 23 | It is the last remaining of four windmills which once stood in the town . |
| 24 | It is the last of its kind remaining . |
| 25 | Er sir to that extent it is the last day of the enquiry . |
| 26 | Any rule chosen from the conflict set has its weight reduced by the factor K. If it is the last rule of a successful search , so its action leads immediately to a goal , then the reward C is added to its weight . |
| 27 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 28 | It is the last human face I want to see . ’ |
| 29 | And as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming , even now many Antichrists have come , this is how we know , it is the last hour . |
| 30 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |