Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 2 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 3 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 4 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 5 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 6 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 7 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 8 | If used strictly according to recommendations , chemical treatments have their place , if only as a last resort for serious threats . |
| 9 | In Ajdabiya , too , the police intervened in civil wrongs only as a last resort : occasionally , for example , disputes over water-rights occurred between lineages , even sections of lineages , and one or other party would try to enlist the support of the police . |
| 10 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 11 | Depending on his assessment of the patient , the therapist may judge that he should be encouraged to use open access only as a last resort ; in other cases it has to be accepted that the patient and his relatives may benefit if they can use this facility often . |
| 12 | Lenders sought to take possession only as a last resort , but sometimes there was no alternative . |
| 13 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 14 | Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place . |
| 15 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 16 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
| 17 | Attempt ‘ heroic ’ rescues only as a last resort . |
| 18 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 19 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 20 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 21 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 22 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 23 | It means that when pesticides are used , and it is only as a last resort , then the most environmentally friendly are chosen . |
| 24 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 26 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 27 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 28 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 29 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 30 | They would only have had you in as a last resort . ’ |