Example sentences of "last and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross . |
| 2 | If Cassie had not been so consumed by rage , she would have laughed at this last and patently childish remark . |
| 3 | Michael Fallon , his Conservative opponent , said : ‘ The Labour Party are the last and most recent converts to green issues . ’ |
| 4 | She visited him when he was under sentence of death at Wandsworth and he wrote one of his last and most affectionate letters to her . |
| 5 | Then we enter the famous city of Gettysburg , site of the last and most decisive battle of the Civil War . |
| 6 | Autumn was reclaiming summer and with it the sun-gilded image of Samantha , last and most innocent of all the Abberleys . |
| 7 | Across the gill a rusting compressed air chamber and a few ruined walls were all that remained of the Sir Francis Level , one of the last and most mechanised mines driven in the dale . |
| 8 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 9 | Last and most impalpable of all is public sentiment . |
| 10 | In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV . |
| 11 | Poindexter was the last and most senior of the Iran-Contra defendants to face trial on charges arising from an operation which involved the clandestine sale of United States arms to Iran and the illegal diversion of the profits to assist the right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua . |
| 12 | The last and most notorious of this respectable lineage was Wild William Darrel . |
| 13 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 14 | I could not help thinking , when he criticised us for not participating in European Community efforts on education , that here was the last and most remarkable convert come to the communautaire viewpoint on these matters . |
| 15 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 16 | Moreover , it was used in the Hung Mao manner-in that curiously inverted way of theirs , where the family name was last and not first . |
| 17 | Independence of course demands economic means : and this brings us to a last and equally basic issue . |
| 18 | The last and equally important part of the system concerns the revision of stock , in which all the factors bearing upon the stock which might cause it to depart from the logistic guidelines are carefully monitored and — where necessary — corrected . |
| 19 | Darlington Civic Theatre VERDI 'S last and arguably finest opera Falstaff is in vogue at present . |
| 20 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 21 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 22 | It begins auspiciously with Purcell 's sacred aria The Blessed Virgin 's Expostulation , not available elsewhere , but back again at last and doubly valuable because it is handled so beautifully . |