Example sentences of "of [pron] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | or , William ( 1617–1701 ) , MP , was baptized at St Peter le Poer , London , 10 April 1617 , the eldest of the ten children ( five sons and five daughters ) , of whom the last three died in childhood , of Sir Henry Garraway [ q.v. ] , draper and lord mayor of London in 1639–40 , of Broad Street , London , and his wife Margaret , daughter of Henry Clitherow , merchant of London . |
| 2 | Thus the offensive , in support of which the last series of raids by the SAS had been carried out , was a failure . |
| 3 | A good example from the field of librarianship is the Library Association 's series British librarianship and information work , of which the last edition covered the years 1981–5 . |
| 4 | of which the last began : |
| 5 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 6 | Artaria & Co published the six ‘ Haydn ’ quartets , of which the last three were K.458 in B flat , known as the ‘ Hunt ’ because of its ‘ hunting-style finale ; K.464 in A , and K.465 in C , the remarkable ‘ Dissonance ’ Quartet , so-called because of its intensely chromatic slow introduction . |
| 7 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 8 | The unc algorithm resolves A into the product unc as above , and then multiplies the factors in reverse order to obtain a new matrix B. Since unc and then unc is a similar transform of A. B is , in general , a fully populated matrix of which the last column is that of R1 ( thus A14 reappears in B ) and the last row that of L1 multiplied by x44 . |
| 9 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 10 | Of which the last is bravery , for he knows |
| 11 | Perhaps the most successful rendering was that of the fifth poem of ‘ Landscapes ’ , entitled ‘ Cape Ann ’ , which he read with great gusto and of which the last line ‘ The palaver is finished ’ produced a ripple of pleasure . |
| 12 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |
| 13 | On a postcard — no letters please — we would like your idea of what the last thoughts of the erk were — plus of course your name and address . |