Example sentences of "the last [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 2 | There would be no appeal against the Court 's decisions ; by rooting the whole ECSC structure in the last resort in the rule of law , the drafters of the treaty introduced a concept which was to be of tremendous importance for European integration as a whole . |
| 3 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 6 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 7 | It was the last person in the world he wanted to talk to , apart from Charmaine . |
| 8 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 9 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 10 | It was nothing serious , she knew that , just a bad bruise in need of cleaning , and the last person in the world she wanted to do the cleaning was him . |
| 11 | I mean God knows , I 'm the last person in the world to worry about that sort of thing , but there does come a point in your career where you have to think about it . |
| 12 | He was the last person in the world who would understand . |
| 13 | He was the last person in the world she wanted to see . |
| 14 | ‘ I am the last person in the world who would want to inhibit the movement of the SMMB to its new form , ’ Mr Lang said , ‘ but there is little I or Michael Heseltine can do to influence the OFT . |
| 15 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 16 | Originally it had been planned that the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel should be painted a secco in oil , but he insisted on carrying out the work al fresco since he considered oil painting to be only ‘ fit for women and slovenly people ’ ! |
| 17 | Almost the last brick in the wall of Folly 's resistance had been demolished , but there was something that still rankled . |
| 18 | ‘ What about the last wave in the heat ? ’ |
| 19 | The last pages in the book have the intriguing heading , Sir J. Cahn 's XI . |
| 20 | Returning to the ground floor once more , visit the last interior in the Clementinum to be finished . |
| 21 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 22 | The last speaker in the 92/93 Executive Club season was sure to capture the attention of the produce buyers but he was a not our usual kind of supplier . |
| 23 | Nor does the last reference in the chapter , the reference to continental European and , in particular , to Western German practice , help . |
| 24 | It is clear from the last sentence in the quotation that Mrs Whitehouse does not view her position in the way some of her critics have done in the past , as reactionary or illiberal . |
| 25 | ( In the proof stage I nearly cut the last sentence in the book , which was that we would know the mind of God . |
| 26 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 27 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 28 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 29 | If you 're after domination , it 's also immensely satisfying to have the last word in a conversation . |
| 30 | Dana was opinionated and liked to have the last word in an argument . |