Example sentences of "but [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the last week or two he 's had to use a bigger bag . |
| 2 | No. 4 is at once a much more serious work than its predecessors : its first movement blazes with a Scriabinesque passion , and the third movements , ‘ The Race of the Field Rats ’ is , but for the last page , a bravura study for left hand alone . |
| 3 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |
| 4 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 5 | One woman did receive a graze on her hand from a falling fragment , but after the last incident , in May 1992 , green gauze was installed under the centre 's 13 glass pyramids . |
| 6 | But with the last cut in the discount and Lombard rates in early February , and further reductions expected in the coming months , it clearly recognises the need for lower rates even if it does adhere to its policy of small steps . |
| 7 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 8 | The Great Powers had been continually driven by the competition among themselves , but in the last decades of the nineteenth century their intensified rivalries included a host of newcomers — Germany and Italy , the two newest Great Powers in Europe , and , close behind , the United States and , in the Far East , Japan . |
| 9 | But in the last decades of the century rational administration was no longer an end in itself . |
| 10 | But in the last minutes of the game , after Phillip de Glanville had ripped open the defence for Hunter 's second try — leaving England 18–12 behind — England again lacked the cold , clinical brain the would open the way through the New Zealand defence . |
| 11 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 12 | ‘ But in the last couple of months we 've seen things suddenly boil up — violent attacks , cars damaged , that sort of thing , along with loads of abuse . ’ |
| 13 | But in the last pages Chailly slackens the pulse again , and instead of an ending to exhilarate and thrill we have anticlimax . |
| 14 | But in the last quarter of last year we ran into an economic cliff , ’ says Alastair Balfour , of Scotland 's leading business publication , Scottish Business Insider . |
| 15 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 16 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 17 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 18 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 19 | But in the last resort what really moves us is our personal convictions . |
| 20 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 21 | But in the last resort , political decisions rest upon judgement , or political wisdom , and upon interests . |
| 22 | The Party Secretary , like a British prime minister , could have great influence and authority , but in the last resort he was essentially primus inter pares — first among equals — and had to carry his colleagues with him . |
| 23 | But in the last resort a trade association has limited sanctions that it can apply , and if necessary it is for booksellers themselves to take appropriate action . |
| 24 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |
| 25 | But in the last sentence of the story he has her say , ‘ The glory has departed from Israel , for the ark of God has been captured . ’ |
| 26 | But in the last months her body began to reject the donor organs and she and her parents , Mike and Sandra Good , were told there was nothing more doctors could do for her . |
| 27 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 28 | Physical appearance is a more vital medium of expression for women than for men ; men may like to adorn and admire themselves , but in the last analysis , when something more interesting comes along — adventure , challenge , war — they will drop any interest in appearance , for it is an optional extra . |
| 29 | However , unless some such backlash does occur , I fear that the decline of the book and thus reading , will have been implemented not by television , video or the computer , but in the last analysis by the publishing industry itself . |
| 30 | It is they who govern , but in the last analysis it is the people who rule themselves . |