Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
2 | The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos . |
3 | However , their most striking innovation is in the way work is now organised in the last stages of the production process in the body shop . |
4 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
5 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
6 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
7 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
8 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
9 | The industry is expected to excuse itself by highlighting the last-minute change in voters ' allegiances , reflected in the last polls . |
10 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
11 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
12 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
13 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
14 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
15 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
16 | His long struggle to prevent the development of a rival port in neighbouring Parton was finally lost in the last months of Lowther 's life . |
17 | His father would never have heard of Isaac Rosenberg , an English poet , killed in the last weeks of the ‘ war to end all wars ’ . |
18 | The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency . |
19 | This underlies the necessity of the mutuality mentioned in the last paragraphs . |
20 | The Trade Negotiations Committee ( TNC-the highest-level body involved in the Uruguay Round ) agreed on July 27 that the final ministerial meeting of the Uruguay Round should be held in the last weeks of 1990 , and accepted an invitation from the European Communities ( EC ) and Belgium that the meeting should be in Brussels , the Belgian capital . |
21 | A prophetic warning came from Canon Hensley Henson in his pamphlet Cui Bono ? , published in the last years of the century . |