Example sentences of "[prep] the last [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 32 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 33 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 34 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 35 | From those brought up to regard the system as the last word in representing the Keynesian system , such a virulent reaction is hardly surprising . |
| 36 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 37 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 38 | To the purist it would seem regrettable to have included a modern 14-carat gold box by Cartier ( although decorated with a nineteenth-century mosaic ) as the last entry in this book . |
| 39 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 40 | Throughout the '80s he had been a tower of strength as the last line in defence and had single-handedly reversed the image of the inept Scottish keeper . |
| 41 | But Aherne , on his game , has the considerable virtues of gritty defence , stretching far beyond the normal demands on a scrum-half , so often turning up to save situations as the last line in the defensive fortifications . |
| 42 | ‘ What about the last wave in the heat ? ’ |
| 43 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 44 | After the last page in March , right at the end , you know , , that 's the best bits Very good , yes , and er , No , no , no , right , oh , yes , yes , I 'm sorry . |
| 45 | Similarly , if someone changed their address , we would just write the name and the new address immediately after the last entry in the book and change the start position in the index . |
| 46 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 47 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 48 | She was confusing her poor machine with half a row of the new pattern , when it still had some of the last row in its little cogs . |
| 49 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 50 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 51 | The history of the last century in Lebanon thus provided dynamite for the detonation of the past 15 years . |
| 52 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 53 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 54 | The Dinas Mawddwy Railway is remarkable even by the standards of the last century in that it was financed largely by just one man , Mr Edmund Buckley of Bryn Hall , Llanymawddwy . |
| 55 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 56 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |
| 57 | Section 15(1) enacts that ‘ notwithstanding anything in any other enactment , a claim under the Act shall not be entertained after the expiration of 30 years from the date of the occurrence which gives rise to the claim , or , where that occurrence was a continuing one , or was one of a succession of occurrences all attributable to a particular happening ’ on a particular site , the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence or succession of occurrences is the relevant one . |
| 58 | A precise , poignant production of the last play in John Byrne 's trilogy impresses Joseph Farrell |
| 59 | He actually witnessed the death of the last animal in his study group . |
| 60 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |