Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 2 | But , even at this stage , there are many hurdles to overcome , as a conference of City experts highlighted last week . |
| 3 | The former reflects the effects of contracts formed last period currently in their first period , and the latter reflects the effects of contracts formed two periods ago now in their second period . |
| 4 | The three councils were part of a consortium of 12 local authorities formed last year to prepare a joint specification of the requirements for a council tax computer system . |
| 5 | The Scotsman disclosed last week that the CRE had begun a formal investigation into the issue , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 6 | The jump follows a big increase in bad debts reported last week by the private banking operations of Lloyds Bank . |
| 7 | The Department of Health also said the 88 new Aids cases reported last month was the highest increase for some time . |
| 8 | It must be a rare sight , even in this division , for spectators to see the home side knock in eleven goals in one match , but that is what the Alborne supporters witnessed last Tuesday night . |
| 9 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 10 | The Association of British Insurers recommended last month that its members should introduce a clause in all new policies specifically excluding terrorist damage . |
| 11 | Local taxi drivers claimed last week that public parking on the taxi rank was forcing them to park on the street and causing congestion which was putting lives at risk . |
| 12 | Sales of Rover cars slumped last year by nineteen percent . |
| 13 | Magistrates at Buckingham , Bucks , heard how French , 56 , defied a 15-year ban on keeping animals imposed last year after more than 400 starving ewes and 25 cattle skeletons were found at Brook Farm near Winslow , Bucks . |
| 14 | The assistant chief constable of Merseyside Paul Acres said last night : ‘ All our thoughts are with her family . ’ |
| 15 | The war of words intensified last week when Mr Clarke accused the unions of using patients as ‘ fodder for pay claims ’ . |
| 16 | Despite the downturn in Britain 's car market ( 300,000 fewer cars sold last year than in 1989 ) , new and better-equipped models continue to drop off the production lines at an astonishing pace . |
| 17 | The numbers of new British cars fitted with catalytic converters increased by over 1,000 per cent in 1990 , accounting for 5.4 per cent of the two million cars sold last year , according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 18 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |
| 19 | Our thinking on mental hospitals has been strongly influenced by studies in which researchers pretended to be mentally ill , and in a television programme broadcast last week in Britain a reporter pretended to be homeless and schizophrenic to illustrate the bleak reality of being mentally ill and homeless ( p 726 ) . |
| 20 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 21 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 22 | ‘ She had a tooth extracted last week , ’ said Staff , ‘ and that 's how the bug got in . |
| 23 | An alternative introduced last year , is the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education — the C.P.V.E. The aim of this course is to enable students to develop their general education in a broad vocational context . |
| 24 | An increase on the 1,000 million yen in environmental aid provided last year , the programme is linked to acid rain in Japan caused by pollution in China . |
| 25 | For a ‘ disease caused by typing ’ £45,000 may seem an awful lot of compensation , but this is the figure awarded last year to a typist suffering from RSI ( repetitive strain injury ) . |
| 26 | The result of the vote taken last week was relayed to SO management last Friday . |
| 27 | This will significantly change the draft guidelines issued last September which stated that children intending to abscond from residential care should be physically prevented from leaving only if they were in ‘ immediate danger ’ . |
| 28 | The findings of a comprehensive review begun last year into ‘ externalising ’ £12 million-worth of services are said to represent the most radical purchaser/provided shake-up yet . |
| 29 | Junk mail clogs landfills , they say , and wipes out forests — 70,000 acres destroyed last year by catalogues alone . |
| 30 | This is a tiny fraction of order books and likely contracts of £2billion , although strikes at home lasting several days and the subsequent long stoppage at Boeing has limited the prospective gain above the £230million aerospace turnover achieved last year . |