Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Popular consciousness of PR had been limited until the last week of the campaign , underlining the argument that , while constitutional reform is popular among the chattering classes , it is not popular among the mass of voters . |
| 3 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 4 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 5 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 6 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 7 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 8 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 9 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 10 | ( Unless of course , you are booked for the last sitting ! ) |
| 11 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 13 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 14 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 15 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 16 | The goods are owned after the last instalment . |
| 17 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 18 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 19 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 20 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 21 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 22 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 23 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 24 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 25 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 26 | Also in the 1930s and 1940s , as has been argued in the last chapter , such scholars as Lazarsfeld , Thurstone , Likert , Stouffer and Guttman had begun to develop a quite different approach to attitudes than had previously been considered . |
| 27 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 28 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 29 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 30 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |