Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Mercury turns to direct motion on September 18th your days of wondering , waiting and worrying should at last be over . |
| 2 | Our citizens must at last find out where their roots are ’ , he says . |
| 3 | We must at last face the question as to whether the time is right to discard the nation state . |
| 4 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 5 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 6 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |
| 7 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 8 | The curator-in-chief in charge of sculpture , Jean-René Gaborit , asked that the courtyards of the Richelieu wing be covered so that his department might at last have the space to show pieces from stores and also sculptures brought in from the Tuileries gardens and elsewhere , many of them suffering from atmospheric pollution . |
| 9 | From the Cairngorms through the Spey valley pinewoods round Abernethy and Rothiemurchus , out to Wester Ross and even the inner isles , so much wild country is changing hands — or at least changing status — that is has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures and of what the poet Thomas Grey called ‘ the pomp of power ’ , where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ' past follies and arrogance . |
| 10 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 11 | Then , with the body subdued , one might at last grapple with the real problems . |
| 12 | The current Seventies retro trend is hopefully only a half-way house on the route towards a radically fresh set of fashion values , in which the tailoring disciplines so dominant over the last ten or 15 years might at last cease to be the basis of contemporary womenswear . |
| 13 | During the second half of the eighties , InterCity could at last boast five complete ten-coach VIP train sets all based and serviced at London 's Bounds Green depot . |
| 14 | The new semi-automated test could at last make massive screening programmes for cervical cancer economically feasible . |
| 15 | BRIAN CLOUGH could at last smile after Nottingham Forest last night belied their desperate League form to overcome Tottenham and reach the quarter-finals of the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 16 | I remember how happy I was when I was accepted at Hamburg University , because I could at last get away from my mother 's asparagus dishes . ’ |
| 17 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 18 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 19 | Names are named , and we could at last see blood on the shelves . |
| 20 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 21 | The fact that our captors were confident and considerate enough to let us have the radio was almost as encouraging as the news we could at last listen to after two years of silence . |
| 22 | Comfort 's hands were clenched over the carved , gilded footboard of the bed and her big grey eyes were anxious when Julia could at last focus on them . |
| 23 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 24 | A gradual change in the countryside from brown to green meant that farmers could at last take advantage of buying less feed and the buoyant demand dwindled . |
| 25 | Gregory of Tours could at last write a coherent narrative of a barbarian ruler and provide him with a chronology . |
| 26 | WAITING IN THE WINGS : Lennox Lewis ( above ) could at last face Frank Bruno in September |
| 27 | The Sixties was a wonderful decade for men who could at last admit to being peacocks . |
| 28 | In addition , they promised , we 'd at last learn the real reason why Bobby Orton walked off the field against Burnhope . |
| 29 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 30 | Oh it used to last all day . |