Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1977 , for reasons suggested in the last chapter , there has been considerable concern among both politicians and the public with the utility of education to society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 6 | Two aspects which will need careful consideration will be the future role of the Tate Gallery 's outposts , in Liverpool and elsewhere , and the special exhibiting needs of work produced in the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 7 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 10 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 11 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
| 12 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
| 13 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 14 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 15 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 16 | In order to look more closely at the assistance reading can give to growth — in both its cognitive ( intellectual ) and affective ( emotional ) aspects — we adopt the list of types of development mentioned in the last chapter . |
| 17 | The complex is stabilized through a network of hydrogen-bonds extending from the last β -strand in the CH1 domain ( residues 209 to 216 ) to the second β -strand in protein G ( residues 16 to 22 ) . |
| 18 | How far is it congruent , or in competition with , the model of grammar outlined in the last chapter ? |
| 19 | So too in memory research ; if an animal can not be shown to have learned except by changing its behaviour and this change in behaviour can only be induced by some form of stress or constraint , then the changes in biochemistry that one finds in relation to the learning must include the changes in relation to the stress — including all the types of neuromodulators discussed in the last chapter . |
| 20 | Other ingredients in the exhibition include a series of reworked pictures decorated with dead flowers , a group of vitrines containing small tableaux which correspond to the imagery of his paintings , and a survey of watercolours created during the last ten years and encompassing the familiar iconography of Valhallas and palettes with wings . |
| 21 | The biography in the liner notes says that ‘ his output comprises a body of works composed in the last five years ’ : but Mason is in his late thirties now , and his music did n't just appear from nowhere . |
| 22 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 23 | =23 , p=0.071 , with the number of accidents reported over the last five years . |
| 24 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |
| 25 | The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the town the number of burglaries remains high but there have also been a large number of arrests made in the last seven days . |
| 27 | Numerous food scares and the dramatic rise in reported cases of food poisoning over the last few years , plus the need to comply with European Community requirements led to the Food Safety Bill , now nearly two years old . |
| 28 | This will become increasingly important as efforts continue to integrate mentally handicapped people into the society of which they are a part , to reverse the policy of segregation begun in the last century . |
| 29 | For the viability of towns depends in the last resort on a solid economic foundation . |
| 30 | Women 's history has yet to take root within our universities and so must wait even longer before it makes an impact in the classroom despite the availability of many histories of women produced in the last decade or so , which could provide starting points for a better balanced approach to history . |