Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How far is it congruent , or in competition with , the model of grammar outlined in the last chapter ? |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |
| 11 | The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It would need a change of culture compared with the last 13 years , ’ said one senior civil servant . |
| 15 | The evolution of the philosophy behind family planning during the last twenty years has moved rather quicker than that of soil conservation so that the present thinking and problems may indicate that in general terms , this critique of conservation policy is not new , but the transfer of ideas merely overdue . |
| 16 | True , Gower upset the Indian Cricket Board of Control with sensitive claims about ball scuffing in the last series here two years ago . |
| 17 | That was the case under legislation enacted by the last Labour government . ’ |
| 18 | That was the case under legislation enacted by the last Labour government . ’ |
| 19 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 20 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 21 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 22 | In a reverse image of Mr Major 's public appearances , as the Labour leader 's belief in victory grew in the last days , so his studied calm and restraint slipped away , and a fatal hint of the ‘ cocky Welsh boyo ’ marked his public performances . |
| 23 | Another in the same mould is Golf 's Lighter Side , a selection of articles from Golf Illustrated from the last 100 years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It focuses on material recovered during the last five years from shipwrecks off the Mediterranean shores of Israel and from the bottom of the Dead Sea . |
| 26 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 27 | ‘ I pay for everything , and he lit another cigarette and exhaled furiously , glaring through the smoke at Bunny munching on the last of his tea-cakes . |
| 28 | The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland . |