Example sentences of "of [adj] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ultimate indignity has befallen Richard Lambert , editor of the Financial Times , following its backing of Labour last week . |
| 2 | Mine were of that last tropical downpour in Samaná when the potential violence had seemed so distant to me . |
| 3 | But the memory of that last family holiday together in Orkney lingers forever . |
| 4 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 5 | Such puritanical zeal is associated with the Sabbath-keeping habits of that last stronghold of the pure gospel in the Western Isles , where bacon lies cold on the plates in the digs of even tax-dodging landladies on a Sabbath morn . |
| 6 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
| 7 | The stink assailed his nostrils , bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him . |
| 8 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 9 | On news mobility , I had a copy of that last month and I 've ordered twenty on each publication . |
| 10 | It makes me want to puke , except I did enough of that last Saturday night ! |
| 11 | There was no emotion in his voice ; but I was thinking of Alison , of that last look she had given me . |
| 12 | But memories kept him awake , particularly of that last night with Laura , and all the pain and anguish she had subsequently caused him . |
| 13 | Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience . |
| 14 | And , gazing back , Pumfrey tried to interpret , from his expression , the implications of that last remark . |
| 15 | As she stepped out on to the third floor , her dark brows were drawn together in the beginnings of a frown because she was still thinking of that last conversation . |
| 16 | Figure 15–8 shows the marginal benefit MB that your neighbour gets from the last inch of tree size and the marginal cost MC to you of that last inch of tree size . |
| 17 | Then I 'm ashamed of the cliche : plenty of Somervillians know the thick of things , the Principals for starters : Miss Pestell and Lady Park at the F. O. , Mrs Craig with the British Council , and of course our own DameJanet , at the end of that last war … . |
| 18 | PP : I do think that Ben 's treatment of that last scene , at the end of the opera , was something that was quite new … |
| 19 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman , two points I want to make and er I get , I can link where the words can go on the top where under the leadership of County er survey , and the la at the end of that last paragraph . |
| 21 | ALEX FERGUSON saluted a blank but bold debut by his £1.2 million new boy Eric Cantona in Lisbon 's Stadium of Light last night . |
| 22 | MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson saluted a blank but bold debut from £1.2 million new boy Eric Cantona in Lisbon 's Stadium of Light last night . |
| 23 | When Sri Hinduja , head of the richest Indian family and seventh richest man in the world , threw a party to celebrate the Hindu festival of light last year , he hired the V&A Museum . |
| 24 | Of this last film the Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges laconically wrote : ‘ The vigorous message of Now , Voyager is : When Bette Davis is disfigured , she is less beautiful . ’ |
| 25 | The consequences of this last point can be pernicious , actually encouraging a way of thinking whereby the aggressor in homophobic violence is somehow identified with his or her victim : both are homosexual , the one repressed , the other overt . |
| 26 | Drawing largely on the Marshall Berman/Perry Anderson debate , and thereby making of Modernism the characteristic expression of the experience of modernity , itself conceived as a response to capitalist modernisation , Callinicos seems to want to claim in essence that both the former are partial in respect of the fact of this last . |
| 27 | Though Berkeley offers little explanation of this last claim about our own minds , he says more about our knowledge of the existence of other minds . |
| 28 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 29 | Kleinig is of course aware of this last point and considers further conditions required to establish the kind of participation which amounts to consent . |
| 30 | Scientists at IBM 's Almaden research centre in San Jose , California , gave a dramatic example of this last spring when they released a picture of 35 xenon atoms arranged to spell their company 's name on the surface of a nickel crystal . |