Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 2 | Despite the law , the company has grown over the last year . |
| 3 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 4 | Here it is time to turn to a consideration of what has become in the last decade , and is still as I write , perhaps the single most popular learning model in the trade today . |
| 5 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 6 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |
| 7 | The world steer , like the world car , has emerged over the last decades through an international standardization of producer technology and a specific set of social relations . |
| 8 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 9 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 10 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 11 | " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands . |
| 12 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 13 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 14 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 15 | Where party discipline is concerned , it is clear that voting cohesion has decreased over the last decade as MPs on both sides feel able to vote more freely . |
| 16 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 17 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 18 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 19 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 20 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 21 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 22 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 23 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |
| 24 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 25 | The consultations that the Board has conducted over the last year have indicated that both SSAP 15 and SSAP 24 are high on the list of standards that should be subject to a comprehensive review in the medium term and at that time the inconsistencies in the approaches adopted , as noted above , can be considered more fully . |
| 26 | The incidence of many congenital malformations has declined in the last decade thanks to advances in screening coverage ( see Carter 1983 , Royal College of Physicians 1989 ) and techniques , and wider knowledge of the availability of abortion . |
| 27 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 28 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 29 | What the overall figures do not show is the way in which the activity of banking business has changed over the last decade . |
| 30 | What we 've actually got here is a judicious budget proposal which yes , has changed over the last fortnight , I make no apologies for that . |