Example sentences of "last [noun sg] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last finding excludes the possibility that the preponderance of frequent past injectors in 1988 could account for differences between 1988 and 1990 in recent injecting frequency . |
| 2 | The last part describes the binomial and Black and Scholes models of option pricing . |
| 3 | The last lane shows the footprinting pattern obtained when the radiolabelled DNA fragment is mixed with the unlabelled calf thymus DNA before adding actinomycin . |
| 4 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 5 | Taking lifetime consumption , this is defined as where the last term represents the present value of wealth passed on ( r being taken here as the interest rate per generation ) . |
| 6 | PAMELA : [ smiling acquiescence , aside ] This last rule crowns the rest . |
| 7 | Prompts and options are on a ‘ loop ’ : eg tapping the ( Right ) direction key at the last prompt takes the cursor back to the first . |
| 8 | The last question illustrates the difficulty of wording a question about real distance which does not get confused with distance on the tables , but this is more likely to happen in a pencil and paper test than in a practical situation . |
| 9 | The last point indicates the importance of the expanding market system and the transition from feudalism to capitalism as homogenizing forces in the later reduction of local differences . |
| 10 | This last point raises the central question often posed to literary scholars by the non-specialist public : Why bother ? |
| 11 | At the lower end , the chain store boom of the last decade means the equivalent one-season wonders may be cheap but that 's exactly how long they last — one season . |
| 12 | Alongside the last jump stands the largest tented village for any annual sporting event in this country . |
| 13 | Word from inside Digital Equipment Corp last week says the company is pretty much ‘ paralysed ’ because of the reorganisation into business units and the fact that ‘ no one is in place . ’ |
| 14 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 15 | The picture on the last page shows the father walking off alone along the darkening street , leaving the brightly lit house behind him . |
| 16 | This last claim extends the bounds of Strawson 's project . |
| 17 | The walk 's last leg follows the embankment of the world 's first electric road-railway , which used to take Victorian tourists from Portrush to the Giant 's Causeway but now covers only the easy descent into Portballintrae . |
| 18 | Since consumers of meals equate the value of the marginal utility of the last meal to the tax-inclusive price that must be paid , society 's valuation of the last meal exceeds the net-of-tax price to which producers of meals are equating marginal cost . |
| 19 | This last line has the overt meaning ‘ till the woman casts off the man ’ , but in fact it is far more savage . |
| 20 | The paradox is that this sudden , violent , essentially mindless process ( the could in the last line underlines the ‘ demoniac compulsion to which the divine bird himself is subject ’ ) is the cause of events of enormous , tragic magnitude for the human race : the birth of Helen and the Trojan war . |
| 21 | Er also feel that the people the companies are not making services actually got because they were against these making go out in the evenings because the last bus leaves the town centre at six thirty . |
| 22 | Despite its apparent lack of reality , this last assumption raises the possibility of an investor making a risk-free return in a market in disequilibrium without having to lay out any of his personal capital . |
| 23 | For Monica Seles , the issue of her absence from Wimbledon last year remains the monkey on her back . |
| 24 | But the marginal cost of the last film equals the value of meals sacrificed , the price of meals multiplied by the quantity of meals forgone by using labour to make that last film . |
| 25 | This last texture represents the clef arrangement of the typical French five-part string ensemble , although as is always the case in Lully 's ballet scores , the parts are unlabelled . |
| 26 | Some genera have high spires , with many turns of the shell visible externally , others have low , broad spires in which the last whorl overlaps the earlier ones . |
| 27 | Some species grew in such a way that the last whorl overlaps the inner ones ; often these species become flat and discus-shaped : it has been suggested that this was a more ‘ streamlined ’ shape for active swimmers . |
| 28 | Obviously this last option permits the human indexer some control over the allocation of index terms . |