Example sentences of "the last [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as yesterday 's half-year figures could be the last Tootal releases as an independent company , it is no surprise it worked hard to make them look good . |
| 2 | She took three aspirins from her handbag and swallowed them , grimacing , with the last tepid mouthful of tea . |
| 3 | Dunkeld Bridge is one of Telford 's finest achievements , overlooking path to Birnam Oak , reputedly the last remaining tree of the Birnam Wood which Macbeth was sure would not come to Dunsinane . |
| 4 | Monks Wood , the last remaining fragment of the great Ewingswode Forest , is owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 5 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 6 | In 1866 the Austrians were thrown out of Venetia , and in 1870 the last remaining territory of the Papal states was annexed . |
| 7 | Waiting at the doorway of the wind beaten mud hut were the last remaining members of his family — his grandparents , who owed their sight problem to cataracts . |
| 8 | Epping Forest was the last remaining portion of the forest of Essex : environmentalist objectives were achieved there by different means . |
| 9 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
| 10 | She returned to the brightly coloured pages of her magazine , leaving Frankie to eat the last remaining quarter of his jam sandwich in peace . |
| 11 | But it was a neat chaos of boxes piled on each other , cakes still in the tins they came in and hatboxes , one of which contained the last remaining ball of her long-ago childhood . |
| 12 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 13 | Two Colombian journalists , the last remaining hostages of the nine kidnapped by the " Extraditables " group between August and November 1990 , were freed on May 20 in Bogotá , the capital , as the government continued to negotiate with the Medellín and Calí cartels the terms of surrender of leading " drug barons " . |
| 14 | Within minutes the last remaining areas of pink stone flooring were covered with bodies and had turned homespun-white . |
| 15 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 16 | This move negates the last remaining advantage of the dying V2000 system developed by Philips and Grundig . |
| 17 | The dam would flood one of the last remaining strongholds of the European lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle , and disrupt the habitat of black storks and wintering cranes . |
| 18 | Mount Apo is also one of the last remaining strongholds of the Philippine eagle , whose numbers have shrunk to around 40 as a result of the widespread deforestation throughout the archipelago . |
| 19 | Towards the end of March , Friedrich von Hayek died : one of the last remaining examples of , in Perry Anderson 's words , ‘ a white emigration that rolled across the flat expanse of English intellectual life ’ . |
| 20 | The dining table is one of the last remaining places for family communication in this day and age . ’ |
| 21 | Her will makes a careful list of most of her very ordinary possessions ; perhaps the most valuable , sentimentally and financially , goes to Samuel Wates , in the form of ‘ Uncle John 's silver watch ’ — possibly the last remaining memento of her deceased brother . |
| 22 | One impending move is the closure of the last remaining ward in Worksop 's old Victoria Hospital . |
| 23 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 24 | The last remaining section of Wychwood Forest belongs to the manor farm . |
| 25 | Canford Heath , on the outskirts of Poole , is one of the last remaining fragments of dry heathland habitat in Britain . |
| 26 | Forever a romantic , and sometimes painfully so , he stayed true to his belief that he was ‘ the last remaining cog in the Arndale Centre ’ ( Manchester 's hideous shopping centre ) . |
| 27 | The episode had led to his expulsion from Unseen University , because , for a bet , he had dared to open the pages of the last remaining copy of the Creator 's own grimoire , the Octavo ( while the University librarian was otherwise engaged ) . |
| 28 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 29 | Presidential and legislative elections were held in Belau ( also known as Palau ) , the last remaining remnant of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , on Nov. 4 . |
| 30 | Lack of garden space precluded any reasonably-sized vat of a permanent nature using brick or block construction — I dare not infringe on the last remaining vestiges of grass . |