Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 2 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 3 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 4 | Clearly this is logically necessary , and in the ‘ forward ’ direction is the basis for the interventive strategies making use of protein synthesis inhibitors that I discussed in the last chapter . |
| 5 | I will indicate , as I go through them , the way in which they work : that is , how they fit into the diagnostic story that we developed in the last chapter . |
| 6 | The answer depends on the criteria of efficiency and equity that we developed in the last chapter . |
| 7 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 8 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 9 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 10 | Although conceivably not before 994 , this was probably earlier , for the greatest possible length of time that could have elapsed between 994 and Æthelric 's death is five years — assuming that he died in the last year that the will could have been confirmed — and whether even this justifies the description " many years " seems questionable . |
| 11 | The first and last sections of the book together add more to our knowledge of Degas ' sculpture than anything published in the last three or four decades . |
| 12 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 13 | But he was tt er a twist hand in the hosiery trade , making socks , and he worked in the last mobile , not mobile , er mechanical stocking manufacturers , owned by my uncle , Mr Frank , in Street and th what we used to called Street . |
| 14 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 15 | Sean Yates produced one of Britain 's best results with 13th place , after he cramped in the last 200 yards when sprinting for third place . |
| 16 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 17 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 18 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 19 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 20 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |
| 21 | As we saw in the last section , knowing your product well helps sell goods . |
| 22 | As we saw in the last chapter , Hooke 's law is really only true for small strains and at large strains the interatomic force curve bends over so that the strain energy is less than we have calculated , very roughly about half . |
| 23 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 24 | As we saw in the last chapter , he , too , believed in the possibility of an objective category of crime which was not necessarily the same as that defined by the existing criminal law , and its source — the reason of the ‘ few thinking men in every nation ’ seems just as elitist and potentially authoritarian . |
| 25 | By itself this association between earnings and company size is not unique to Japan , but as we saw in the last chapter the number of workers affected is greater . |
| 26 | But , as we saw in the last chapter , there may be reasons to reject this analysis of causation in favour of the one involving real connections or causal powers or both . |
| 27 | As we saw in the last chapter , a study in William Dement 's laboratory verified that external stimuli could indeed be incorporated into dreams during REM sleep . |
| 28 | This hierarchy within physics was , as we saw in the last chapter , also noted by Becher ( 1984 ) , in his examination of the ‘ culture ’ of disciplines . |
| 29 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 30 | On the one hand , as we saw in the last chapter , we are uncertain about the limits of our own species . |