Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ; |
| 11 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |