Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 2 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 3 | He was educated at home , and at the King Jan Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow , then at the Jagiellonian University , where he studied physics , mathematics , and philosophy , gaining his doctorate in the last subject ‘ with the highest imperial honours ’ in 1908 . |
| 4 | How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’ |
| 5 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 6 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 7 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |
| 8 | Michael Duffy , the Province 's No. 1 ranked amateur , sealed his place in the Last 16 with a sparkling 127 clearance in the fourth frame of his match against Colin Sewell . |
| 9 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 10 | ‘ I read your article in the last issue , ’ Evelyn said . |
| 11 | Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’ |
| 12 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
| 13 | Certainly , Baker showed no ill-effects from his short lay-off when he beat fellow international Sammy Allen to book his place in the last eight . |
| 14 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 15 | The striker hit his treble in the last half hour , after Steve Cannon and former Marine ace Derek McClatchey had put much-changed Town 2-1 ahead . |
| 16 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |
| 17 | Having taken the opening game 15–4 , but losing the second 14–17 , the Surrey player , 24 , came back from 8–13 down in the decider to claim his place in the last four . |
| 18 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 19 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
| 20 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 21 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 22 | Kerly , exchanging with his captain Richard Leman , slotted in No. 4 in the 48th minute and completed his hat-trick in the last minute after Thompson had set him up . |
| 23 | Typical of such questions is , ‘ Compared with other people of your age how do you rate your health in the last year ? ’ . |
| 24 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 25 | Following my disclosure in the last issue that escalating costs and reduced financial expectations had forced the United States Tennis Association to contemplate a major re-think of plans for the rebuilding of Flushing Meadow , I hear that the French Federation has also run into problems over the upgrading and expansion of Roland Garros . |
| 26 | But if Labour 's leaders misplayed their hand in the last week , Paddy Ashdown 's behaviour was more damaging by far . |
| 27 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
| 28 | Johnson ( 1988 ) observes that this decrease is not a new phenomenon but is a continuation of trends which have their origin in the last century . |
| 29 | As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south . |
| 30 | All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade . |