Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 2 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 3 | He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy . |
| 4 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 5 | The concept of four major glacial events , based on classic studies in the European Alps ( Penck and Brückner , 1909 ) and supported by observations in Scandinavia , North America and Siberia , has in the last decade been shown to be an oversimplification . |
| 6 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
| 7 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 8 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 9 | London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet . |
| 10 | In the years when no rain occurs between the last spraying of the vine and the harvest , the first sixty-five litres of the cuvée will often be tapped off and added to the taille . |
| 11 | As so often happens in the last years , his remaining family and oldest friends became of most importance to him . |
| 12 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 13 | For the viability of towns depends in the last resort on a solid economic foundation . |
| 14 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 15 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 16 | As answers to the last question jibber-jabbered in her head , Ashley straightened . |
| 17 | His three customers on the plane were a woman who had changed her travel plans at the last minute and a married couple starting a world tour . |
| 18 | It has a symbolic broom and drives behind the last man on the road , ready to sweep up those who abandon the race . |
| 19 | Which marks for the last test give a final average of fourteen marks for So the one test is gon na give him that is n't it ? |
| 20 | In the Dodds case the House of Lords stated that if the month in which the period expires has no corresponding date because it is too short , the period given by the notice ends on the last day of that month , ie 28 February or 29 February in a leap year . |
| 21 | The summer tradition of recapping all the year 's exhibitions ends on the last day of the month at the Zabriskie , while Marie-Jo Lafontaine continues at the Montaigne gallery until the 18th . |
| 22 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 23 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 24 | Wall fabric always sounds like the last word in luxury but in fact need not cost much . |
| 25 | He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two . |
| 26 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 27 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 28 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 29 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 30 | My friend Mike with the big house has n't phoned in yet has he either he usually phones in the last part of the programme . |