Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | For the viability of towns depends in the last resort on a solid economic foundation . |
| 7 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 8 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 9 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 10 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 13 | deepends in the last lesson . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 15 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |