Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 2 | John Nef , in his Wiles Lectures of 1956 , concluded that , if we seek the origins of our modern quantitative-mindedness , we must concentrate on the last decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | He told the committee : ‘ The number of trains run in the off-peak must depend in the last instance on the views of the operator . ’ |
| 4 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 5 | It is to the history of some of these works that one must turn for the last part of the story . |
| 6 | I and some others have tried to do something about it because you 'll remember in the last year last two years , we have put in a a sum of money in the budget to increase the allowances for members and for resources to support members . |
| 7 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 8 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 9 | You do n't need to go actually to the end with your numbers but you can take your line right along there cos you might find at the last minute there 's an extra one you want to put on . |
| 10 | Let's look at the last two in more detail . |
| 11 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 12 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 13 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 15 | Anything could happen on the last hole at Royal St. George 's , with its six bunkers , the out-of-bounds line twelve yards beyond the green and the ever-present Duncan 's Hollow . |
| 16 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 17 | Even the Prime Minister , who once used to arrive on the last day by aeroplane in order to deliver his speech , sits every day on the platform listening to rebuke , complaint and exhortation . |
| 18 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 19 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 20 | I shall return in the last part of this book to discuss the realistic potential for both the renewables and conservation in more detail and within a non-nuclear energy policy . |
| 21 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 22 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 23 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |
| 24 | These , felt Lydia , would rise on the last day , climbing briskly out of their coffins , brushing away the mould of corruption and muttering , ‘ About time too . ’ |
| 25 | The pattern will repeat after the last square of the pattern drawing on the right . |
| 26 | Erm members will remember at the last er , personal services committee on the twenty fourth of June er , the option to put forward by the Environment Trust and Widdings er , builders was accepted as the one that er officers could pursue and to actually get some final proposals worked up and bring back to both the neighbourhood committee and this committee . |
| 27 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
| 28 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |
| 29 | The printer will stop after the last row and not move the paper . |
| 30 | Yesterday , however , American announced that the Stansted–Chicago service will end with the last flight on May 31 — putting the jobs of 50 ground staff at risk . |