Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] last [noun sg] " 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 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 5 | If used strictly according to recommendations , chemical treatments have their place , if only as a last resort for serious threats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lenders sought to take possession only as a last resort , but sometimes there was no alternative . |
| 10 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 11 | Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
| 14 | Attempt ‘ heroic ’ rescues only as a last resort . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 20 | It means that when pesticides are used , and it is only as a last resort , then the most environmentally friendly are chosen . |
| 21 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 23 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 24 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 25 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 26 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 27 | So after a last minute practise session on the open road it 's off to the Aylesbury test centre … no chequered flag in prospect but the possible thrill of discarding those rather embarassing Learner plates for the world 's best . |
| 28 | He parked ten yards or so after the last house , outside a wire-mesh fence in front of a late 1950s prefabricated school . |
| 29 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 30 | DOWNPATRICK races will start later than usual next Wednesday — at 4.00pm with the last race at 6.30pm . |