Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reflecting about the activities of the last year I looked up enterprise in ’ Roget 's Thesaurus ’ . |
| 2 | Mr. Beazley suggested that to do this would be adopting an isolationist attitude , but I am unable to accept this submission , particularly since Schedule 4 itself is a modified version of its counterpart in the Brussels Convention , which has been adapted in substantive respects to fit United Kingdom requirements , e.g. , by the addition of the last 12 words to article 5(3) , and by the insertion of the entirely new article 5(8) on which Mr. Beazley relies in the present case . |
| 3 | Equation ( 19.13 ) for the mean velocity U i differs from the laminar flow equation by the addition of the last term . |
| 4 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 5 | The organisers have accordingly taken the opportunity in the last few rooms to explore a second although only tenuously related theme , that of the possible influence of Leonardo and Milanese art on Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 7 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 8 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 9 | Ten fighter jets from Upper Heyford have left the base for the last time , as the American operation there begins to wind down . |
| 10 | Entrance and visa requirements for all UN and foreign personnel were reported to have been tightened since the expiry of the last memorandum on June 30 . |
| 11 | Though The Turtles may be part of an older Manc tradition , of The Hollies , The Distractions and 10cc , Martin has no problem with the euphoria of the last 18 months . |
| 12 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 13 | There are some striking similarities between the accounts of the Last Supper and the Passover meal . |
| 14 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 15 | The winner of the last edition of Environmental Issues ' competition to spot where they all are now was Clare Stevens . |
| 16 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 17 | Say the sentence for the last time . |
| 18 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 19 | At the same time Russia and Eastern Europe are discarding the shackles of the last 40-odd years . |
| 20 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 21 | Reza Shah was an ex-Cossack officer who in 1925 seized the throne from the last of the preceding Qajar dynasty . |
| 22 | In studying the narrative of the last week of Jesus , the following notes are based on Mark 's text . |
| 23 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 24 | There is no need to chronicle in detail the conflicts of the last years of O'Neill 's administration . |
| 25 | In the case of the last round of the Young Cook of Britain competition , to be judged on 17 October , regional finalists were asked which famous person they would like to cook for . |
| 26 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 27 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 28 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |
| 29 | A White Paper on defence released on May 21 , 1991 , suggested that future defence considerations would be based less on the South Pacific , as had been the case over the last six years , and more on New Zealand taking an active part in global security matters . |
| 30 | There was also anxiety that the degree of toleration allowed to Dissenters would be restricted , as indeed proved to be the case in the last years of Anne 's reign with the passage of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts . |