Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 2 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 3 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 4 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 5 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 6 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 7 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 8 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 9 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |
| 10 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 11 | ( Unless of course , you are booked for the last sitting ! ) |
| 12 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 13 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 14 | More obvious trends are visible among the external towers added during the last phase of defensive activity in the mid fourth century . |
| 15 | He 'd trusted for the last time . |
| 16 | To make matters worse , most of the contents of the Musée Jacquemart-André were evacuated during the last war . |
| 17 | The goods are owned after the last instalment . |
| 18 | German war records rescued after the last war showed that Hitler 's use of astrology was one of the major causes for his demise . |
| 19 | I remember when some tapes were located of the last performance that Dinu Lipatti gave at Lucerne . |
| 20 | Results in the £1,000 Hathaway fours at the Morrison Centre showed that three games were won with the last bowl and another finished all square in a very competitive tournament . |
| 21 | But this was far too much activity to be squeezed into the last quarter of the fourth century . |
| 22 | He argues that more people will live to the full extent of their lifespans and that the onset of disability will be squeezed into the last phase of life . |
| 23 | Earned in the last war , no doubt , and that stiff , awkward leg too . |
| 24 | Expected in the last half of 1993 , the company is intent on doubling Pentium 's performance and moving three instructions through the 2.2m transistor chip every cycle . |
| 25 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 26 | Omitted from the last column is the term fièrement ( ‘ proudly ’ ) , found only in the Cauvin |
| 27 | The last few questions were omitted from the last Journal and are given here . |
| 28 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 29 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 30 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |