Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further to the European Community budget proposals , which were proposed unanimously by all the Commissioners , including the two British Commissioners , will my right hon. Friend also agree that extra resources long term will be needed for redundant farmers — — in east European countries , and for the cohesion fund , that there is no need for us to have the United Kingdom budget contribution undermined in any way by these proposals and that they are less in percentage terms annually than the last 10 years ' increase in the EC budget ? |
| 2 | I should be grateful if you would amend the small advertisement for the B.A.E.C. at the next time of insertion so that the last part reads : ‘ For details , write to the Secretary , . |
| 3 | There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies . |
| 4 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 5 | He tipped the bottle up so that the last of the liquid flowed into his glass . |
| 6 | After you have mimicked , always listen again to each utterance so that the last thing you hear is him/her and not yourself . |
| 7 | In mimicking a dialogue it is important that you hear the language helper say the utterance again after you have mimicked , so that the last version you hear is the correct one . |
| 8 | In the classical ( slow-moving ) limit it is possible to ignore the time compared with spatial derivatives so that the last equation reduces to . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 11 | When the NYSE moves down ( up ) by more than 50 points , selling ( buying ) shares — not just short selling — as part of an index arbitrage transaction can be executed only if the last price movement was up ( down ) . |
| 12 | I mean Jim went to work at one o'clock and the last of the kids went home , I 've had my dinner |
| 13 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 14 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 15 | The fluctuations in Scottish support for political nationalism would suggest that the sense of Scottish identity , separateness from the English and resentment against England , has bounced up and down quite unsystematically since the last war . |
| 16 | Ramsay waited impatiently after the last riders had passed out of sight . |
| 17 | The members of Parliament said it was a scandal ; they were still debating it long after the last vulture took his last victim . |
| 18 | Gundobad and his son Sigismund both wanted the title of magister militum in the sixth century , long after the last emperor in the west had been deposed . |
| 19 | Only when the last bullet had been fired and when Clint Eastwood had matter-of-factly and deftly dropped the six-shooter back into its holster , flicked the cheroot away and walked into the sunset , did the man in the old jacket and cords , legs dangling over the seat in front , get up and shamble slowly up the darkened aisle . |
| 20 | Silently they watched the passengers leave , and only when the last ones had laughed and chatted their way into the hotel did Claudia manage to relax . |
| 21 | ‘ Only when the last tree has died and the last river been |
| 22 | A DC changes state from PROPOSED to AGREED only when the last interested user has accepted the DC using option 2.2.0 and only then if all interested users have accepted it . |
| 23 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 24 | ‘ I figured I 'd better get started before I ended up like Brahms or something , ’ he deadpans in a voice that betrays his Welsh origins ( he was born in 1942 in Garnant ) rather than the last 25 years living in New York . |
| 25 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 26 | He and the others repeated all the old objections to plastic as a material , heavy , slow , unmanoeuvrable and dangerous with the emphasis this time on the middle two rather than the last . |
| 27 | And in in the circumstances I 'm talking about where I would work on the side , then it 's always gon na be erm turning to the quickest resort , rather than the last resort you know . |
| 28 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 29 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 30 | It was only when the bottles of wine had been firmly put away and the last glass drained that they got the message . |