Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
2 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
3 | The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape . |
4 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
5 | This aircraft sold at the last auction for $9,000 plus commission . |
6 | Fighting intensified in the last week of December and was reportedly especially heavy around Caxito and Ndalatando , respectively 80 km north-east and 200 km south-east of Luanda . |
7 | The pier had knobs but was derelict , entry barred since the last fire . |
8 | For patients with iterative studies , only mean gastric cell densities obtained from the last set of biopsy specimens or from the gastrectomy specimen were taken in consideration . |
9 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
10 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
11 | As Personal Assistant to John Watson , prepare a report reviewing Palatine Ales ' position following the successful conclusion of the takeover battle , evaluating the proposals made at the last Board meeting , and submitting your recommendations regarding future policy . |
12 | The migration component has to be based on estimates gauged from a variety of sources like the Electoral Register , the NHS Central Register , the International Passenger Survey , and the migration patterns revealed by the last census . |
13 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
14 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
15 | ‘ What about new work received in the last week ? ’ |
16 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
17 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
18 | Fears of large-scale coastal flooding were averted as the fierce winds shifted at the last minute . |
19 | However , further pit closures are inevitable in the productivity battle , because the 65 million tonnes agreed for the last year of the contract is likely to shrink to fewer than 50 million , at best . |
20 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
21 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
22 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
23 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
24 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
25 | Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance ? |
26 | In a one-syllable utterance , the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter . |
27 | It is important to remember the distinction explained in the last chapter between purely generic unascertained goods ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat ’ ) and unascertained goods from a specific bulk ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat out of the 1,000 tons in the vessel Neptune ’ ) . |
28 | Again , among Baptists , a survey of 248 new buildings erected in the last decade of the century shows that of the total , 60 per cent cost under £2,000 and 42 per cent cost under £1,000 . |
29 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
30 | More obvious trends are visible among the external towers added during the last phase of defensive activity in the mid fourth century . |