Example sentences of "as [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 2 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 3 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 4 | Grace Craig in Human Development even includes a section on death as the last development of all , the final growth experience . |
| 5 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 6 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 7 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 8 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
| 11 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
| 12 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 13 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 14 | It stirred something deep and primitive in her and she closed her eyes in bliss as the last garment dropped to the floor . |
| 15 | ‘ Whheeccchhhh ! ’ shouted a female voice as the band robustly played the Gay Gordons , announced as the last dance . |
| 16 | Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head . |
| 17 | Through the search over three continents , homelessness and pain-memory , she is able to find a new tongue as the last poem , in a sort of quiet , cautious exultation , shows . |
| 18 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 19 | A guarantee company can avoid the usual requirement of limited companies to have ‘ Limited ’ as the last word of the corporate name . |
| 20 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 21 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 22 | From those brought up to regard the system as the last word in representing the Keynesian system , such a virulent reaction is hardly surprising . |
| 23 | As the last word tripped off Lamont 's mouth the room half emptied as bored businessmen raced for the buffet tables and the cold Chablis . |
| 24 | Categories are as the last competition i.e. HUMAN PORTRAITURE , PICTORIAL , LANDSCAPES , FLORA AND FAUNA , ARCHITECTURE/BUILDINGS/RECORD AND ANY PRINT ( the latter is for exhibitors not having previously won a prize ) . |
| 25 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 26 | " You do n't know Quiss began , then gave a start as the last part of what his adversary had said sank in . |
| 27 | Nationalists saw the US military presence as the last vestige of US colonialism , and in the run-up to the talks there were anti-US demonstrations , some violent . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm very glad to be having this debate as the last Council meeting we er put a motion down on P R which the Labour Group refused to discuss , and Councillor in the summer ma put some release out said he was in favour of it . |
| 30 | ‘ The break from constitutional monarchy is almost certain to see Elizabeth II as the last Queen of Australia , ’ it added . |