Example sentences of "to be the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | This appointment was unique , and was the only instance of its kind — it was also to be the last for over a century , because Edward A. Kirk was deaf . |
| 32 | made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday . |
| 33 | Korg 's A4 is n't claiming to be the last word in processors , but still it offers a lot for the money . |
| 34 | We made the excursion with ‘ the children ’ that had become traditional ; perhaps it was the most beautiful , and it was to be the last . |
| 35 | This was to be the last major action by the 14th . |
| 36 | Many readers take the moral to be the last two lines of the poem , which seem to mean ‘ Be kind to animals ’ . |
| 37 | The story of the Frome Titfords properly ends with the youngest of the four brothers whose fortunes we have been following ; his children were to be the last Titfords in the town , and he himself outlived William , Thomas and Charles . |
| 38 | He had already prepared the ground for the extension of the concrete flooring , and , since this was likely to be the last Sunday of the year when it would not freeze , the next job was to prepare the concrete mixture , which lay against the wall in a large bag . |
| 39 | Petitioning for bankruptcy tends to be the last resort , but even the threat of petitioning can prove most effective . |
| 40 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 41 | Surviving until 1932 , it proved to be the last newspaper published inside the country by that organisation . |
| 42 | I had felt this incident to be the last straw , but it was n't — quite As a misfit , I was not entirely alone . |
| 43 | He is quickly shipped off to San Francisco to be studied by a German scientist ( Jon Voight ) , and found to be the last survivor of a tribe massacred by the White Man . |
| 44 | This would have to be the last mountain . |
| 45 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 46 | Despite the donation of more than thirty million European Currency Units raised by GenTech-sponsored concerts in America and the Soviet Union , Wally the Whale — believed to be the last cetacean in the Atlantic Ocean — died today of natural causes totally unconnected with the acceptable levels of pollution in the area . |
| 47 | The Test is likely to be the last international outing for Nick Farr-Jones , the Australian captain . |
| 48 | There is a saying ‘ Who 's going to be the last one to pull their hands out of the fire ? ’ |
| 49 | As DON CAMERON reports , they are unlikely to be the last New Zealanders to make the move . |
| 50 | There is , of course , great competition to be the last to lay , and the privilege is taken by the dominant female . |
| 51 | I wondered as we strolled across the lawn whether he might not in fact turn out to be the last King of Tonga , the final member of a brief and moderately distinguished dynasty . |
| 52 | The Langrake , named Carlos , is over six feet high and is believed ( by Paul and Helen ) to be the last survivor of its breed . |
| 53 | There are a lot of people who know of a colleague who appeared to be the last person to go under — ‘ Jim always seemed such a jolly , easygoing chap ’ — until his absence one day was followed by news of his nervous breakdown , or heart attack , or suicide . |
| 54 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 55 | She swore to herself that this was going to be the last child . |
| 56 | ‘ There is a crisis in Marxism ’ , Sartre announced at the beginning of the Critique ; this crisis , not the first and not to be the last , Sartre characterized as the result of a paradox in which historical materialism had become ‘ at one and the same time , the only truth of History and a total indetermination of the Truth ’ ( I , 19 ) . |
| 57 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 58 | This was not pre-arranged ; it happens however to be the last before the lease runs out . |
| 59 | Before I moved to Sheffield in 1970 I had done my homework and knew that for a first visit to this corner of the Peak the venue had to be the last of these three crags . |
| 60 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |