Example sentences of "see [prep] [art] last [noun sg] " 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 either case it is generally seen as a last resort .
3 It is not mere chance that admitting children into residential care is seen as a last resort by field and residential social workers , but it is , I wish to argue , the logical outcome of what has gone before .
4 One advantage of being at home is that you will be less likely to have a caesarian section , which is seen as a last resort while in hospitals around 12pc of all pregnancies will end in an operation .
5 The declaration was seen as a last gesture by Annamalai Varatharaja Perumal , the Chief Minister of the Council and leader of the EPRLF , who subsequently left Sri Lanka along with his wife and family .
6 Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence .
7 In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments .
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 They are seen as the last defence of standards .
10 Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 .
11 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 .
12 Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort .
13 Wandsworth was the first new store to open with staff wearing the new design , as seen in the last issue of the Journal .
14 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 .
15 erm they had a number of F E students seen in the last year .
16 Number of sixth form students erm seen in the last year .
17 In instrumentalist writings the state is seen in the last resort as a unified organization .
18 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 .
19 But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Last seen in the last war , nineteen forty , she lived on the Road South in
25 This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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