Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 jump follows a big increase in bad debts reported last week by the private banking operations of Lloyds Bank . |
| 6 | The Department of Health also said the 88 new Aids cases reported last month was the highest increase for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | The Association of British Insurers recommended last month that its members should introduce a clause in all new policies specifically excluding terrorist damage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sales of Rover cars slumped last year by nineteen percent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The assistant chief constable of Merseyside Paul Acres said last night : ‘ All our thoughts are with her family . ’ |
| 14 | The war of words intensified last week when Mr Clarke accused the unions of using patients as ‘ fodder for pay claims ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |
| 18 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 19 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Junk mail clogs landfills , they say , and wipes out forests — 70,000 acres destroyed last year by catalogues alone . |
| 22 | Utilising existing artwork — such as that given in a project — simply involves tracing the copper track layout onto a film , using the methods described last month . |
| 23 | Journalists published last week a copy of an affidavit made to the police saying that Mrs Mandela had put a 20,000 rand ( £4,000 ) ‘ contract ’ on the life of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , shot dead in his surgery on January 27 , 1989 . |
| 24 | Of the 222 new American funds launched last year , 99 were of the Lazards variety and carry no initial or exit charges . |
| 25 | It is one of three coaches built last year under the INCA ( INcreased CApacity ) scheme , jointly funded by the European Regional Development Fund , The Wales Tourist Board and the Railway Company . |
| 26 | Chemistry from a shopping basket was the title of two schools ' lectures given last November by Dr John Nicholson of the Centre for Science Education , UEA , to packed audiences of 12–14 year old pupils from Norfolk and Suffolk schools . |
| 27 | THE Conservatives sought last night to force the election debate back on to Mr Kinnock 's fitness to govern and the economy , with a warning that Labour would plunge Britain from recession into a full-blown slump . |
| 28 | Expressing the belief that public spending ceilings set last autumn for the next three years would keep the growth of spending below that of the economy as a whole , the Chancellor stressed : ‘ Proper control of public expenditure can not be achieved simply by setting targets . |
| 29 | At the same time , last week Compaq announced two new families — eight models — in its ProSignia series , aiming for the corporate market , in combination with the low-price models announced last October in Japan . |
| 30 | Home Office experts at Aldermaston , Berks , have matched DNA from the duke , a direct descendant of Tsarina Alexandria , with samples from bones unearthed last year . |