Example sentences of "be see [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 They are seen as the last defence of standards .
2 They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife .
3 Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth .
4 In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another .
5 It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them .
6 Sebastiane ( Virgin , 18 , rental ) , with its nude centurions cavorting in the sun , is well-known ; but his homo-erotic visual poetry can also be seen in The Last of England ( Island Visual Arts , 18 , rental ) , in which a junkie skinhead roams through a land of urban detritus .
7 Some indication of how this operates can be seen in the last extract quoted , other answers to these questions are to a certain extent dictated by the nature of the activities involved in each specific arts subject , and the way they are examined .
8 EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks .
9 Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 .
10 In instrumentalist writings the state is seen in the last resort as a unified organization .
11 Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort .
12 As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal .
13 In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments .
14 The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago .
15 It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime .
16 But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways .
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