Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required .
2 Bob Burnett , spokesman for Livingston-based TIG , said : ‘ Research at Edinburgh University showed that during the last decade careless handling of smokers ’ materials played a part in 44 per cent of household fires which resulted in death . ’
3 Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me .
4 You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available .
5 The immediate trigger was that during the last period of the war the Ministry of Reconstruction 's Housing Advisory Panel , chaired by Lord Salisbury , was successful in establishing the parameters of post-war policy .
6 ‘ It would seem , ’ said Earl Robert , after a moment of courteous silence in deference to any other who might wish to speak , ‘ that as the last comer , this verdict sends me first into the lists .
7 Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas .
8 Can I just say that after the last meeting and you urging us all to write I did write to them .
9 I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country .
10 IMF statistics show that throughout the last decade German interest rates have consistently been half those of the UK .
11 The hon. Gentleman has clearly not observed that in the last year inflation has fallen to 4 per cent .
12 The hon. Gentleman will know that in the last year we have also cut interest rates seven times and halved inflation .
13 The minister will be aware that in the last year of the Labour government , there was an hundred and fifty thousand apprenticeships in manufacturing alone whilst in manufacturing in nineteen ninety one there was only fifty one thousand apprenticeships .
14 The English love affair with Tuscany is so well known that in the last century hotel porters in Siena called all foreigners English , even if they were German or Russian .
15 Does the Secretary of State recall that in the last recession under this Government the collapse of manufacturing industry was said to be making it leaner and fitter to face the future ?
16 ‘ He said to me that he felt that in the last couple of internationals he had n't done himself justice .
17 With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead .
18 Pressed last night on the issue , Mr Havel conceded that in the last resort he would accept the post as head of state .
19 In this case the fact that all the bans were put into effect and no reports of significant clashes between librarians and local authorities emerged , probably indicates that in the last resort employer 's directives preceded loyalty to professional obligations ; and in the light of the current employment situation it would have been surprising if such personal considerations did not prevail .
20 It appears then that in the last resort , with all the facts before me , and all my ungrounded principles logically ordered , I still have no grounds upon which to choose .
21 Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears .
22 On the contrary , it is assumed that in the last resort truth is a matter of individual consciences where all consciences are held , by an act of faith , to be equal either in the sight of God or in the sight of man .
23 It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse .
24 But she knew that in the last resort that if he did win that I would do it but he 's he 's paid off now .
25 But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again
26 Sometimes a theoretical framework prescribes that particular factors are considered causally prior to others ; Marxists , for example , assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural , political variables .
27 It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier .
28 Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes .
29 As we wandered across the Széchenyi Bridge towards my hotel , László pointed out that in the last days of the Nazi occupation , Admiral Horthy had protected the Budapest Jews .
30 Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings .
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