Example sentences of "being the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have extra meaning for me , being the last one in New York . ’ |
| 2 | Later work completed the Baroque look , a Neo-Classical reshaping of the interior being the last work completed . |
| 3 | The station has even provided a Liverpudlian euphemism for coitus interruptus — ‘ to get off at Edge Hill ’ — Edge Hill being the last station before Liverpool Lime Street . |
| 4 | Now we both understand that the 100th round , being the last , will be equivalent to a simple one-off game of Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 5 | Views on the function of the pilot stage vary among research workers , but I view the pilot stage as being the last one before the actual survey itself and therefore the stage where , as far as possible , the interview schedule is as near to its final form in both questions and answer categories as it can be . |
| 6 | A firmly recommended CD without quite being the last word . |
| 7 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 8 | She might seem remote to new readers when she talks proudly about being the last family at school to get a TV set , and the books open on the table at mealtimes in her parent 's house . |
| 9 | Sarah , left alone , had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome . |
| 10 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 11 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 12 | So , in turn , were groups such as Beaverbrook , with the Telegraph being the last . |
| 13 | The drama of the space race derives very largely from this being the last wilderness left . |
| 14 | For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’ |
| 15 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 16 | It is possible to suggest an implicational series , using the symbols suggested in chapter 4.5 : as the rule diffuses through the lexicon , monosyllabic T environments are the first to be affected by it , followed by monosyllabic D environments , with the polysyllables being the last to be affected . |
| 17 | We all gathered in an area where a bar had been arranged , the house party guests being the last to arrive . |
| 18 | Being the last to know is n't actually the worst thing a betrayed wide can experience . |
| 19 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 20 | If Mr Nitschke is right about the hotel being the last of its type in London , it will be the second time around for the property . |
| 21 | At one time it was thought that not many photographs were taken of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , especially of No 1 , the ex GWR Tank Locomotive , which shares the honours with ‘ Carlisle ’ as being the last two engines to work the line . |
| 22 | " I am not so sure whether I can handle the fame of being the last project leader of the old St. Joe 's ! " |
| 23 | ‘ Respecting my Parrots , there is much to say : — no more numbers will be published by me — the 12th — which you have , being the last . |
| 24 | Now , a new settlement option is a last ditch option , we 're far from being the last ditch here , we 're hardly the first ditch . |
| 25 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |
| 26 | Fairbrother was another Kumble victim , skying a catch to mid-off to be sixth out and playing the shot of a man fed up with being the last recognised batsman caught in a hopeless position . |
| 27 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |