Example sentences of "[vb mod] be the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be the last to imply that a Member of Parliament ought to subordinate his judgement of what is wise or right to even the most overwhelming majority of opinion . |
| 2 | THIS should be the last word about exploding rats and other devices that appeal to the sadistic sense of humour in most of us . |
| 3 | In many ways it should be the last consideration , though some people have such strong likes and dislikes that they can neither explain nor ignore ! |
| 4 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 5 | The research evidence suggests that support from one 's family should be the last resort and not the first , and that even then it must be handled carefully to ensure that each party retains a proper independence of the other . |
| 6 | The next release of Lanserver , due around September or October should be the last to incorporate work from IBM 's estranged partner according to Ray Buckland , the UK manager in charge of Lan Software and client-server systems . |
| 7 | But the essence of a market is to strike a balance between buyers and sellers , and if the pool price — the equivalent of the Rotterdam spot market for oil — currently favours the buyers , a Conservative minister should be the last to complain . |
| 8 | This means not only that forecasts must be made for each sector separately but that the base year should be the last one for which there were no constraints on the supply of places . |
| 9 | There was no reason to limit cautions to one , prosecution should be the last resort . |
| 10 | ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’ |
| 11 | Struggling to contain his emotions , a shattered Wilfred Ball said of his son Johnathan 's death : ‘ This should be the last tragedy of all . ’ |
| 12 | This should be the last tragedy of all . |
| 13 | ‘ This must be the last place on earth where his words are public — except Albania . ’ |
| 14 | Here the letters D and BAL ( the D must be the last letter of the word GRAND ) were probably suggested by a dance hall poster hanging in a bar , and help to convey a ‘ cafe ’ atmosphere . |
| 15 | Getting raped at that age — Jesus , it must be the last thing you need . |
| 16 | This must be the last weekend . ’ |
| 17 | A star command must be the last ( or only ) command on a program line and its argument may not be a variable . |
| 18 | Since a star command must be the last ( or only ) command in a program line , you need to use the OSCLI command to pass the CLI command to the operating system . |
| 19 | I think that 'll been the last helicopter . |
| 20 | In a foreword to the 1979 Conservative election manifesto , Mrs Thatcher suggested that the election might be the last chance voters had to reverse the extension of state power at the expense of the individual . |
| 21 | ‘ What with this septi … whassname it might be the last you 'll get . ’ |
| 22 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |
| 23 | But he took such duties seriously ; he often had to give his opinion on the work of young poets who were about to be dispatched into the war : and he knew that his comments might be the last they ever received . |
| 24 | It was in these and these alone that we were determined to reach our goal , for not only was our finance conditional on such a journey , but also it might be the last opportunity for anyone to make this historic voyage before the Bugis ' prahus were gone for ever . |
| 25 | At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time . |
| 26 | With reference to the thought that this button might be the last relic surviving from this unit , I have in my collection the silver shoulder belt plate of Joseph Bennett ( of Chaxhill House , Westbury-on-Severn ) hall marked 1803/04 and probably handed on from his brother Daniel . |
| 27 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 28 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 29 | In fact , of the four examples with saltires , it might be the last type C arrangement , with the mosaic from the site of Bon Marche , Gloucester , ( which shows a comparable simplicity of motif and mediocre draughtsmanship ) , being attributable to an approximately similar period . |
| 30 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |