Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat , 53 , is now writing her third book , High Wynd Fling , the last part in a trilogy of Darlington anecdotes and reminiscences . |
| 2 | When that grandfather , his last hope of a parent-figure among his own kin , turned his pipe , he pointed John Rowlands on the path which was to give him his place in history . |
| 3 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 4 | Mr Smith took the constituency at the last election by a majority of little more than twelve hundred , but believes his five years as MP will make his seat safe . |
| 5 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 6 | This was the last opportunity for a dress rehearsal in the New York Preview theatre . |
| 7 | Piccadilly Circus is the traditional haunt of busloads of Day-Glo-rucksacked European schoolchildren loitering with intent to spend their last tenner on a Sex Pistols T-shirt . |
| 8 | Although it will attract the lion 's share of attention , the exhibition is , in fact , only the last link in a chain of new developments in Magritte studies , for a fresh monograph and the first of five projected volumes of a catalogue raisonné are being published this month . |
| 9 | This jump occurs after the paragraph corresponding to the last link from a node and before the first paragraph associated with the next node . |
| 10 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 11 | In some areas — notably labour relations policy — Citrine was able successfully to keep the mandarins and ministers at bay , but he lacked the independent powers of the old CEB to say a straight ‘ no ’ in the last resort on a point on which the Minister had strong feelings . |
| 12 | He added — this is the importance of the statement — that privatisation was the last resort of a management which had given up . |
| 13 | The guidance emphasises that restraint should be used as a last resort within a caring and disciplined home environment . |
| 14 | One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin . |
| 15 | Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs . |
| 16 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 17 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 18 | SPIRITUALIZED follow their ‘ Lazer Guided Melodies ’ tour last spring with a string of dates at . |
| 19 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 20 | One of Lewis 's more ambitious poems , ‘ The Jungle ’ , ends with a question — ‘ does the will 's long struggle end / With the last kindness of a foe or friend ? ’ — a question answered on 5 March 1944 when , hours before the start of his first patrol against the Japanese on the north Burma coast , he did himself that kindness with a shot from his own revolver . |
| 21 | Looking out over the Brussels skyline , it occurs to me that Carter may well not have that many more opportunities to have the last laugh on a scale like this . |
| 22 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 23 | When he attacked C. P. Snow in Two Cultures ? ( 1962 ) , it was the last act of a drama in which he had played for thirty years . |
| 24 | Less generous critics might say it 's his last tilt at a windmill . |
| 25 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 26 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 27 | The Council 's Rules of procedure provide that the last Article of a regulation shall specify the commencement date if the date is other than the twentieth day following publication . |
| 28 | Its death had been postponed , which had enabled the Hunt Ball Committee to hire it for the triumphant last appearance of a house that had outlived its glamour , and all kind importances . |
| 29 | I would like to put forward this last point as a suggestion to be adopted by branches . |
| 30 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |