Example sentences of "in [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the water in these aquifers comes from recharge in wetter areas nearby , but much of it is ‘ fossil water ’ , rain that fell in the last Ice Age . |
| 2 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
| 3 | ‘ They are excellent in the last lap . ’ |
| 4 | This usually leads to removal of the effect of any repeating pattern such as a 2 , 5 or 0 in the last digit because every digit in the number divided is involved in the division , and so may be altered . |
| 5 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 6 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 7 | This may help us to understand why it is that the family was never more expertly advised , psychoanalysed and researched , yet never has it fallen apart more dramatically than in the last generation . |
| 8 | ‘ In the last generation of Anglo-Saxon England ’ , writes H. R. Loyn , ‘ there were twenty known moneyers at work simultaneously in London ; more than ten at York ; at least nine in Lincoln and Winchester ; eight at least at Chester ; seven at least at Canterbury and Oxford ; and at least six at Gloucester , Thetford and Worcester . ’ |
| 9 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |
| 10 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 11 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 12 | At Tibnin , the ruins are the highest point in the last village in southern Lebanon still held by a Muslim militia . |
| 13 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 14 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 15 | This blanket condemnation brought an outcry of popular protest and a compromise was reached whereby all the naked figures in The Last Judgement were to have clothes painted on them . |
| 16 | In the case of unregistered title the husband 's solicitors will , therefore , submit a copy of the last conveyance , mortgage ( if any ) , any sales-off or other transactions , together with copies of any covenants referred to in the last conveyance , to the new husband 's solicitors who will themselves submit a draft conveyance . |
| 17 | He was educated at home , and at the King Jan Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow , then at the Jagiellonian University , where he studied physics , mathematics , and philosophy , gaining his doctorate in the last subject ‘ with the highest imperial honours ’ in 1908 . |
| 18 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 19 | In 1924 , the United States upset the heavily-favoured French 17–3 in Paris in the last rugby match in the Olympics . |
| 20 | All elections in Kerala are notoriously close calls — in the last poll for the State Assembly , the winning left coalition scored just 0.79 per cent more than its Congress-led rival . |
| 21 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 22 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 23 | She was liable to propel into the governmental system men associated with business success , of whom Lord Young became the prototype from 1984 onwards She was truly a distinctive phenomenon , linked neither with the patrician values of the grandees in the shires , nor with the manufacturing Tories of northern England cherished by Disraelian Tory Democracy in the last century , nor again with the suburban Toryism dominant in the party in the interwar years and after 1951 . |
| 24 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |
| 25 | In the last century the British deemed the wild mountainous regions of the Pashtuns too costly and too difficult to conquer . |
| 26 | MODERN molecular biology has finally answered one of the most important questions thrown up by experiments in the last century on the nature of genetic inheritance . |
| 27 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 28 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
| 29 | Celtic excavations began in earnest only in the last century , and much remains untouched . |
| 30 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |