Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unc algorithm resolves A into the product unc as above , and then multiplies the factors in reverse order to obtain a new matrix B. Since unc and then unc is a similar transform of A. B is , in general , a fully populated matrix of which the last column is that of R1 ( thus A14 reappears in B ) and the last row that of L1 multiplied by x44 . |
| 2 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most successful rendering was that of the fifth poem of ‘ Landscapes ’ , entitled ‘ Cape Ann ’ , which he read with great gusto and of which the last line ‘ The palaver is finished ’ produced a ripple of pleasure . |
| 4 | A good example from the field of librarianship is the Library Association 's series British librarianship and information work , of which the last edition covered the years 1981–5 . |
| 5 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
| 6 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 7 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 8 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 9 | Figures quoted at irregular intervals by the STC and other sources suggest that there were approximately 150 in 1879 ; 200 in 1885 ; 300 in 1888 ; about the same in 1892 ; 540 in 1899 ; 651 in 1908 ; and about 800 in 1910 , the year in which the last girl apprentice entered the Edinburgh trade . |
| 10 | ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls . |
| 11 | Some genera have high spires , with many turns of the shell visible externally , others have low , broad spires in which the last whorl overlaps the earlier ones . |
| 12 | Yes , I 'd just like to emphasize the point of the last er refusal , which , I 've got a copy here , would be over bearing , out of scale with the adjacent residential property , detrimental to the amenity of adjacent occupiers , and I see no , I know we 're not talking about an appeal at this stage , we 're talking about another application , I personally see no change whatsoever to the circumstances in which the last application was refused , these properties , totally out of proportion , and totally overpowering and overbearing for that entrance to the village |
| 13 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 14 | In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning . |
| 15 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 16 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 17 | To me the last part of the poem is the one that really contains the message of futility suggested by the title : |
| 18 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 19 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 20 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | Loans of paintings by Watteau , Lancret and Pater and the painter-architects Knobelsdorff , von Graff and Roslin have come from the Potsdam castles , Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin , Burg Hohenzollern ( the seat of the uncle of Prinz Georg ) and Schloss Doorn in the Netherlands to which the last Kaiser was exiled in 1918 . |
| 22 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 23 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 24 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 25 | Women are dominated completely by men , who by the grace of God are deemed superior ; therefore , women will give testimony according to what the last man told them ; |
| 26 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 27 | These changes reflect a variety of social factors , including the decrease in the age of marriage , a decrease in the average age at which the last child is born combined with a closer spacing of children . |
| 28 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |