Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 's biggest Americana sales were held at Christie 's and Sotheby 's during the last week of January , coinciding with the Winter Antiques show in New York . |
| 2 | It 's not fair to the others — and asking for clothes for his wife is about the last straw ! ’ |
| 3 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 4 | One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit . |
| 5 | If they are all full , the blockage is between the last inspection chamber and the main sewer . |
| 6 | I mean , has , has anyone else got these wo , it 's off the last bulletin . |
| 7 | I was gon na say it 's about the last one ! |
| 8 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 9 | And at a time when the Ingard lot are pressed for money , he 's about the last person you 'd have thought they 'd go to any trouble over . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's about the last of them , sir , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Right er number four er the National Entertainments Conference organized by the N U S. I have since secured some money from Executive Committee to send two representatives to this Committee , and it 's in the last week of the summer holidays . |
| 12 | Could do with a good faith if it 's not one it 's in the last |
| 13 | but it 's in the last brochure had the extra warmth ones , which I like |
| 14 | But er and if sh she 's in the last book , she tells how ugly erm , erm Steve was . |
| 15 | Gives it to us in psalm a hundred and thirty three and it 's in the last verse . |
| 16 | It is from the last line of this work that the LNWR coined the name for their locomotive . |
| 17 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 18 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |
| 19 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |
| 20 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 21 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 22 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 23 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 24 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 25 | Right , the first addition is on the last page under the erm the Royal Hall of Ministers and Elders to er remember their . |