Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How far is it congruent , or in competition with , the model of grammar outlined in the last chapter ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | =23 , p=0.071 , with the number of accidents reported over the last five years . |
| 15 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It would need a change of culture compared with the last 13 years , ’ said one senior civil servant . |
| 20 | Of the 40 , nine were appointed to ensure equal representation of Moslems and Christians ; the remainder filled seats left vacant by the death of representatives elected at the last general election in 1972 . |
| 21 | For properties built within the last 20 years or so , this would be 225 × 450mm . |
| 22 | That was the case under legislation enacted by the last Labour government . ’ |
| 23 | That was the case under legislation enacted by the last Labour government . ’ |
| 24 | He is not obliged to deal with proofs lodged after the last date for proving but may do so if he thinks fit ( r 11.3(2) ) . |
| 25 | In houses built during the last 50 years , the joists will be at about 16in centres . |
| 26 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 27 | Another in the same mould is Golf 's Lighter Side , a selection of articles from Golf Illustrated from the last 100 years . |
| 28 | She used the ‘ immediacy effect ’ concept , adumbrated by Price 1965 , to find the percentage of references in a field to literature published within the last five years . |
| 29 | The Institutional Shareholders ' Committee suggested that information relating to the proportion of current sales attributable to products introduced in the last three to five years would , with other data , provide a helpful indication of the return earned on R&D . |
| 30 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |