Example sentences of "see [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 2 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 5 | Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 . |
| 6 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 7 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 8 | Wandsworth was the first new store to open with staff wearing the new design , as seen in the last issue of the Journal . |
| 9 | Last year the pharmaceutical sector in both the UK and America provided investors with significant profits following the strong price rises seen in the last quarter of 1991 . |
| 10 | erm they had a number of F E students seen in the last year . |
| 11 | Number of sixth form students erm seen in the last year . |
| 12 | In instrumentalist writings the state is seen in the last resort as a unified organization . |
| 13 | You have already isolated the woman , picked her out from all the women you have seen in the last hour , all the women you have seen today . |
| 14 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 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 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 20 | Last seen in the last war , nineteen forty , she lived on the Road South in |
| 21 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 22 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And Nicholas looked , and saw for the last time the face of Katelina van Borselen , into which Abul Ismail read contentment . |
| 28 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 29 | As we saw in the last chapter , Hooke 's law is really only true for small strains and at large strains the interatomic force curve bends over so that the strain energy is less than we have calculated , very roughly about half . |
| 30 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |