Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 2 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 3 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 4 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 5 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 6 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 7 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 8 | John Nef , in his Wiles Lectures of 1956 , concluded that , if we seek the origins of our modern quantitative-mindedness , we must concentrate on the last decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | He does not narrowly concentrate on the last week of Jesus ' life ; the entire life of Jesus was an example of sacrificial love . |
| 10 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 11 | I say to the orchestra , this is not the way ; you must think of the last bars as a fermata , a fermata that lasts the entire length of the coda . |
| 12 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 13 | The pattern will repeat after the last square of the pattern drawing on the right . |
| 14 | And what shall we do with the last pizza so that |
| 15 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 16 | ‘ If you 're so sure , what would you do on the last day of your life ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can tell you what I 'd do on the last day of my life , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 19 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 20 | Dexter looked back and saw Russell drain off the last drops of his lager . |
| 21 | I and some others have tried to do something about it because you 'll remember in the last year last two years , we have put in a a sum of money in the budget to increase the allowances for members and for resources to support members . |
| 22 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 23 | Well they 're getting comfy seats and we 're star well as you can see from the last play , Wuthering Heights that erm we actually lost money on that I know it will happen but I feel that we ought to erm go along and get into a healthier position again . |
| 24 | Or if in doubt , you can search from the last date of any registration disclosed ( of registration of the seller or of a mortgage , etc ) . |
| 25 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 26 | See chapter 2 and do not look on the last fortnight as the only time to work , even if it does " concentrate your mind wonderfully " . |
| 27 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 28 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |
| 29 | The printer will stop after the last row and not move the paper . |
| 30 | I shall return in the last part of this book to discuss the realistic potential for both the renewables and conservation in more detail and within a non-nuclear energy policy . |