Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 2 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 3 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 4 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |
| 5 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 6 | I think what we will do , erm certainly a lot of concern was expressed at the last meeting that this er forum should should die er but I do n't think it will I think it is very simple , to set aside one meeting a year , devote it to cycles and invite the same people who have coming from the party . |
| 7 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 8 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 9 | But the project was scrapped at the last minute . |
| 10 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 11 | Erm members will re ma , will be reminded the report was requested at the last personal services committee with regards to the council 's involvement in the current museums and Essex committee er , I 'm also requesting er , the financial contribution that this council actually makes to that committee . |
| 12 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 13 | Two such papers were tabled at the last TCP meeting : a submission from Metropolitan Section to the Traffic Director for London commenting on the Draft Network Plan and a response from the North Western Section to PIEDA 's Regional Economic Strategy paper . |
| 14 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 15 | A planned visit by the king to Timisoara on Christmas Eve was cancelled at the last minute because of restrictions imposed by the government . |
| 16 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 17 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |