Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gall bladder is the last place to produce bile that is likely to nucleate in the patients with cholesterol gall stones . |
| 2 | Glendambo is the last petrol station for 200 kilometres , " warned the Budget car-hire girl , as she handed me the keys to a six-cylinder Holden Commodore . |
| 3 | The boat is the last of the White Funnel fleet which has plied the Bristol Channel since Victorian times . |
| 4 | Uulaa is the last place , right now , that would look for us ’ . |
| 5 | Practice might improve things , but with this weight of negative experience , practice is the last thing they want . |
| 6 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 7 | Had he known it , he had merely started the echo of another man 's voice in Harry 's overburdened mind , saying bitterly : ‘ Light is the last thing a man should willingly surrender . |
| 8 | ‘ Pleasure is the last word I 'd associate with your company . ’ |
| 9 | Intv. he sez morale is very low and this industrial action is the last thing the men wanted . |
| 10 | Puddephat 's murder was the last item in the bulletin . |
| 11 | Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind . |
| 12 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 13 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 14 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 15 | His air of innocence was the last straw . |
| 16 | It clearly pleased Ana but pleasure was the last thing Candace felt . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 19 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 20 | Head of state and chairman of the National Defence Council were the last two posts that Mr Krenz , aged 52 , held after resigning as Communist Party chief last Sunday . |
| 21 | Giving the people of Hong Kong more democratic influence is the last development they want . |
| 22 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 23 | The parent is the last to develop ; this is the part of the personality that looks after us . |
| 24 | Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate . |
| 25 | Remarkably , the first sighting of Dr Johnson 's ‘ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ’ was in The New Republic in March 1989 ; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult , if not impossible , to shift . |
| 26 | That 's why its discovery is the last goal for the time being of particle physics . |
| 27 | Dana would be startled to see her , and a scene was the last thing either of them needed . |
| 28 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 29 | Cold was the last thing she felt right now . |
| 30 | Indeed a precipitate British withdrawal was the last thing Washington wanted . |