Example sentences of "the last [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 2 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 3 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 4 | One time we went to The Last Resort in Fulham Road . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is always prepared to lend to the discount houses in the last resort in order to ensure adequate liquidity in the economy . |
| 8 | The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole . |
| 9 | On the last Sunday in May 1943 were received as full members . |
| 10 | Feast Sunday was again the traditional date for the sing , but Mapplewell and Staincross Feast was the last Sunday in July . |
| 11 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 14 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 15 | Sociology has expanded enormously over the last decade in terms of the body of significant literature . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The project is investigating changes over the last decade in Cheltenham 's economic , social and political structure resulting from broad national and international trends . |
| 18 | Fish stocks have continued to decrease despite expenditure of over $1 billion during the last decade in building fish ladders , screens over turbine intakes and hatcheries . |
| 19 | It was the last person in the world he wanted to talk to , apart from Charmaine . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She would have been the last person in the world to interfere with that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was the last person in the world who would understand . |
| 25 | He was the last person in the world she wanted to see . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Teacher was watching from the doorway when Frankie , the last child in his line , turned in time to see his mam move away from the school gate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ ! |
| 30 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |