Example sentences of "be [vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Park Authorities should be given last resort compulsory purchase powers ( on a similar basis to Section 29 Orders ) to be used where voluntary agreements fail . |
| 2 | National Park Authorities should be given last resort compulsory purchase powers under new legislation on a similar basis to Section 29 ( of the Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) applying to NCC . |
| 3 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 4 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 5 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 6 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 7 | They were expected to be discharged last night . |
| 8 | The intimate details of Kahlo 's and Rivera 's life together are also the subject of a Mexican/U.S. -financed film which started to be made last month by the American director Luis Valdez . |
| 9 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 10 | LIBERAL Democrat hopes of repeating Sir Ian Wrigglesworth 's 1983 victory in marginal Stockton South looked set to be dashed last night . |
| 11 | One of them , Christina Carter , eight , was due to be told last night that her 15-year-old sister , Danielle , was one of the three killed in the explosion . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the most exciting regional museum to be opened last year — it was opened last May by Her Majesty the Queen — was the Tullie House museum in Carlisle ? |
| 13 | Their match with Glenavon III had to be postponed last week and Glenavon are now claiming the points . |
| 14 | because it was supposed to be briefed last |
| 15 | Neither of the men involved in the incident could be contacted last night . |
| 16 | Neither Mr Nellis , nor Mr Morton 's partner could be contacted last night . |
| 17 | None of the Durlia club officials could be contacted last night . |
| 18 | HUNDREDS of millions of dollars of Iraqi oil money were ordered to be seized last night to pay for relief aid to the Kurds . |
| 19 | They g they had to be weighed last week and he weighs more than Jonathan . |
| 20 | When Drexel 's former equity head , Arthur Kirsch , let it be known last spring that Drexel 's entire American-equity department might be had as a going concern , BZW did not pause to carry out market research on the venture . |
| 21 | Our debate on who our clients might actually be concluded last week at a very important point . |
| 22 | LOGO and the languages which follow could allow people of the Third World to recover control of their cultural and educational development for the first time since elite education began to be Europeanised last century . |
| 23 | The RSPCA has returned to the farm where six horses had to be destroyed last week because they were in such bad condition . |
| 24 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |