Example sentences of "to the last [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If not , use the arrows icon until this does appear ) Take the cross pointer to the last square at the right , you will see that this is column 45 . |
| 2 | The café , which dates back to the last century , has been maintained intact , at least in its decor . |
| 3 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 4 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 5 | As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state . |
| 6 | I am especially pleased to welcome JCI back as a shareholder , a position they held from 1918 until 1979 , cementing the close relationship between our two companies dating back to the last century . |
| 7 | It 's 4 years since the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company found a new home in Birmingham , but many of the stage clothes date back to 40s ; some even to the last century . |
| 8 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
| 9 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 10 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 11 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |
| 12 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 13 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 14 | The employee worked under a contract for a fixed , specified period from the start of the autumn term to the last day of the summer term . |
| 15 | It also meant constant fighting right up to the last day , and for Bomber Command no let-up in the night by night sorties into enemy skies . |
| 16 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 17 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 18 | Gokbilgin reproduces a for Mehmed II's complex based on the Fatih mosque in Istanbul for the year 1 Dhu " l-Ka'da 894 to the last day of Shawwal 895 ( 26 September 1489 to 15 September 1490 ) from which it is clear that Molla Arab was both muderris at the Sahn and Multi during that year ; while in a document published by Barkan , a conflation of two statements of income and expenditure for the of Murad II in Edirne , written in Rajab 896/May-June 1491 and covering the years mid-893 to mid-895 , one finds a reference to one " Mevlana Isa Halife , [ the ] Sufi , one of the disciples of Mevlana Arab , mufti " . |
| 19 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |
| 20 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
| 21 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 22 | ‘ There is still a long way to go , though , and nobody at this club forgets that , two seasons ago , Aberdeen made up a ten-point deficit and took Rangers to the last day of the season before they ( Rangers ) won the title . ’ |
| 23 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 24 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 25 | A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism . |
| 26 | Eventually orders came through confirming the worst : the Austrian cuirassiers were to stay there and fight to the last man . |
| 27 | There seems no doubt that the dead prisoners were handcuffed and this infuriated Hitler , who in October ordered that ‘ all enemy troops taking part in the so-called Commando operations … in uniform or not … whether in battle or whilst escaping … will be destroyed to the last man ’ . |
| 28 | General von Laffert , the German commander on the spot , had ordered that both villages ‘ must be defended to the utmost and be held to the last man , even if the enemy cuts the connections on both sides and also threatens them from the rear . ’ |
| 29 | fight to the last man They started firing first . |
| 30 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |