Example sentences of "to [be] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week .
2 Celtic are likely to be without the last Parkhead man to score , Joe Miller , injured playing for the Scotland Under-21s in midweek .
3 He confessed : ‘ I want to be in the last tee-off time every week with Nick Faldo .
4 How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party .
5 The Noble Earl , Lord has been wounded by the suggestion he confessed to be in the last debate that Mr Howard has the intention of putting political friends into these jobs .
6 Erm , that 's on the basis that eighty percent of your diary , forward scheduling will be in the next thirty days , eighty percent of your backtracking for information is going to be in the last thirty days .
7 ‘ It is very rewarding for the club , the fans and the players to be in the last eight of the top tournament in Europe .
8 In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens .
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