Example sentences of "[vb base] the last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Delete the last sentence of the first paragraph |
| 3 | For example , if we make the last element of unc unity , and partition ( |
| 4 | She listened in such a way as to make every remark of mine appear the last word in wit . |
| 5 | In desperation , once we hit the less-trafficked back roads south-east of Manor House , I cover the last leg on the well-polished bodywork of someone 's brand new Volvo . |
| 6 | By contrast , most British supporters walk the last part of the way to the stadium and derive a greater sense of excitement , anticipation and being part of a crowd . |
| 7 | One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin . |
| 8 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 9 | ( In the proof stage I nearly cut the last sentence in the book , which was that we would know the mind of God . |
| 10 | He also cut the last line of the final song , ‘ Rest till the rosy morn 's uprise ’ , leaving the Fairy Queen herself at the centre of a choral lullaby . |
| 11 | Save the last dance for me . |
| 12 | Finish the last packet of cigarettes the night before and not dash out to the off-license or garage before going to bed in order to stock up . |
| 13 | The power of the Imperial illusion is only properly appreciated when we watch the last phase in the career of a politician 's politician of the first rank , Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 14 | ( ii ) If we transfer the last column of A to the first position , we have a new matrix A ; with B unchanged we then have unc A is again of degeneracy 1 , B of degeneracy 2 ; but here C is of degeneracy 3 . |
| 15 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 16 | In the darkness , the driver of Gould 's car kept repeating , ‘ They always get the last car in the convoy … they always get the last car in the convoy ’ , but Gould knew that he would not get hit . |
| 17 | In the darkness , the driver of Gould 's car kept repeating , ‘ They always get the last car in the convoy … they always get the last car in the convoy ’ , but Gould knew that he would not get hit . |
| 18 | Returning to the ground floor once more , visit the last interior in the Clementinum to be finished . |
| 19 | Copy the last sentence of the first paragraph and insert it as a separate paragraph at the end of the task , one clear line space below the paragraph starting ‘ NOISE … ‘ |
| 20 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 21 | We have got the fastest rising unemployment anywhere in Europe and the figures destroy the last vestiges of credibility for the Conservatives on the economy . ’ |
| 22 | It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland . |
| 23 | Use the last phrase of the previous section to get smoothly into the opening phrase of the next movement . |
| 24 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 25 | Workers pass it from mouth to mouth or gather one another 's excrement in order to reprocess the partially digested food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it . |
| 26 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Take the last phrase at an early stage and in good faith |
| 28 | Even for those who reach the last year of secondary school , only about 50 per cent pass the matriculation exam , and only a handful achieve the higher grade of ‘ matric exemption ’ which is required for university entrance . |
| 29 | Of course , eventually the samples reach the last capacitor in the chain , where they provide the output signal before being discarded . |
| 30 | When SBUs reach the last phase of their life-cycle ( irrespective of whether a cost-leadership or differentiated-product strategy is being employed ) , there are still further options available which will need to be understood by the accountant in order to ensure that all options are considered and relevant financial profiles selected . |