Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] last [be] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I feel I shall at last be in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 10 | Is it too much to hope that , in spite of the worst excesses of this year , Mozart will at last be allowed to grow up ? |
| 11 | Unpaid work will at last be recognised as valuable . |
| 12 | If they are , we will at last be able to see the countryside put back into countryside management . |
| 13 | ‘ Once this backbone is in place , there will at last be capacity to link people into it . |
| 14 | But with both in place , Russia will at last be able to make full use of the $13 billion in foreign help that has been promised . |
| 15 | From May the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía will at last be what its title implies , a national museum exhibiting a permanent collection of modern and contemporary works of art . |
| 16 | The book will at last be plainly evident for what it is : one option for the delivery of information among a range of possibilities , rather than the unquestionably natural platform . |
| 17 | When we have the answers , multimedia will at last be ready to deliver the revolution that electronic publishing has long been promising . |
| 18 | When Byrd 's songs have finally been recognized for what they are , there will at last be a recording of ‘ O dear life , when may be it be , sung to its complete text all eight stanzas of Sir Philip Sidney 's agonizingly erotic poem by five brave and talented singers who know exactly what they are doing . |
| 19 | The misery that is caused by these lines will at last be wiped out . ’ |
| 20 | One has the awful feeling that at this election , because of the recession and the loss of conviction which has accompanied the ending of the Thatcher era , this tendency may at last be triumphant . |
| 21 | Coupled with last week 's fall in inflation to four per cent , ministers believe the much-vaunted ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may at last be showing through . |
| 22 | His belief that his fitness problems may at last be over stems from an unusual remedy — putting on weight as a conscious policy . |
| 23 | Today , one hundred years after his death , we may at last be approaching a sufficient understanding to bring to fruition Darwin 's proposal . |
| 24 | Now trade officials are talking about yet another deadline in mid-December , it seems as if the EC may at last be ready to play a more active role in liberalising world trade , thanks largely to goading from its energetic new trade commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan . |
| 25 | For the most cheering news out of Greece today is that the country may at last be getting tired of the bumbly , floppy politics of the past . |
| 26 | Armed with these and other detailed structural pictures , we may at last be able to get a handle on some of the many and complex eukaryotic transcriptional control mechanisms at the molecular level . |
| 27 | Government optimism that the crime wave may at last be under control will be little consolation to Franc Hyde . |
| 28 | If that too decides prices are too high , the record industry may at last be forced to reduce them . |
| 29 | An undercover agent who was tortured and murdered by the I-R-A fifteen years ago may at last be given a proper burial . |
| 30 | With most building societies promising a drop in mortgage rates , there are hopes the long-awaited upturn in the housing market may at last be on the way . |