Example sentences of "the last [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last session the final entry to the forthcoming tournament is chosen . |
| 2 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 3 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
| 4 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 5 | In the last resort the council has powers to send in workmen to carry out emergency repairs with or without the owner 's agreement , preventing further decay and making the building wind- and water-tight . |
| 6 | In the last resort the aims of the Council were to be achieved by ‘ discussion of questions of common concern and by agreements and common action in economic , social , scientific , legal and administrative matters and in the maintenance and further realisation of human rights and fundamental freedoms ’ . |
| 7 | However , in the last resort the interpretation of its decisions would depend upon the national governments and the national court systems . |
| 8 | Great power status was in the last resort the ability to wage war . |
| 9 | It had been shown that the essentially non-dramatic tactic , slow as it might be , was in the last resort the one which brought results . |
| 10 | In the last case the development officer had obtained the services of an unpaid volunteer to relieve a wife occasionally from the care of her husband . |
| 11 | Thus , shortening applies to the stressed syllables of fellow , intention , intentional , but not to fell , intend ( as in the last case the stressed syllable is not penultimate ) . |
| 12 | But over the last decade the cost of hardware has dropped , the perceived value of information has risen , and the LAN has become most significant for its information-sharing capabilities . |
| 13 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 14 | In the last decade the private sector has started to develop the amount of residential and nursing home care it provided . |
| 15 | Over the last decade the major dictionaries that have become available ( in a limited manner ) to researchers are : |
| 16 | It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes . |
| 17 | In the last decade the number of individuals claiming Invalidity Benefit has doubled ; the transfer currently costs the Treasury approximately 3.5 billion pounds . |
| 18 | In the last decade the policy agenda concerning the Arctic has gradually been expanded , with a growing interest in scientific study and environmental protection supplementing the study of the area 's existing defence significance and economic value . |
| 19 | Over the last decade the concept of hotel security has changed dramatically . |
| 20 | Thus for the last decade the report envisages that 25 per cent of new building should be for replacement ; at such a rate the demand for greenfield sites might fall . |
| 21 | Over the last decade the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for |
| 22 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |
| 23 | When in response to the last question the reply is ‘ sixty ’ the leader grabs hold of the five pound note and says ‘ There we are ’ . |
| 24 | But this autonomy for stage agencies is relative , since in the last instance the requirements of capitalism as an economic system will always prevail over any contradictory state policies , even supposing that these should reach the point of being explicitly formulated . |
| 25 | While they reject the instrumentalist accounts of power , which assume that any and all actions by the state must serve the interests of the ruling class directly , in the last instance the constraints imposed upon the state by the private ownership of the means of production severely limit the long-term freedom of manoeuvre of the state . |
| 26 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
| 27 | The last payment the end of February . |
| 28 | There were a number of girls in the party and at the last minute the female teacher who was to chaperone them dropped out . |
| 29 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 30 | However , at the last minute the selectors have restored Little to inside centre and picked Fox and Steve Bachop as the fly-halves , very likely on the basis they are much more accurate punters than Little . |