Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
| 2 | The peace-brokers were approached within the last two months and asked to ‘ seek the views of loyalist paramilitaries ’ on the subject . |
| 3 | The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) . |
| 4 | Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what percentage of collieries have been closed under the present Government , and what percentage were closed under the last Labour Government ? |
| 5 | A survey by Director magazine shows that 337 bosses were prosecuted in the last financial year . |
| 6 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 7 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |
| 8 | But the fireworks were reserved for the last six holes , each of which he birdied . |
| 9 | Our minutes were lost in the last Great War . |
| 10 | Over here , the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 33.7 points to 2,812.2 by the close of business , of which 24 points were lost in the last 90 minutes of trading . |
| 11 | With doubled CO 2 ( Fig. 3 c ) denitrification again occurred but concentrations of N y lower than about 1p.p.b.v. were maintained until the last 10 days of the simulation when downward transport restored the higher values . |
| 12 | If you are one of the people who left the course at 4pm , I have enclosed a copy of the Action Plan that was considered during the last half hour . |
| 13 | Even she , however , was defeated by the last steep hill . |
| 14 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 15 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 16 | All mandatory cockpit voice recording systems operate on a continuous loop with a duration of thirty minutes , so the investigator can only hear what was said during the last thirty minutes of flight . |
| 17 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 18 | Mr Maxwell said that the postponement was agreed in the last few weeks , following a decision to spend heavily next year on unspecified initiatives to increase Mirror Group 's market share . |
| 19 | Erm members will re ma , will be reminded the report was requested at the last personal services committee with regards to the council 's involvement in the current museums and Essex committee er , I 'm also requesting er , the financial contribution that this council actually makes to that committee . |
| 20 | Gestational age was assessed as the last completed week of pregnancy . |
| 21 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 22 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 24 | We are spending two and a half times as much , after taking account of inflation , as was spent by the last Labour Government on training . |
| 25 | Adjuvant bile acid therapy was administered to the last 56 patients who underwent successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomies . |
| 26 | KF 's core business , however , has always been retailing , although its rank in the market was slipping in the last ten years . |
| 27 | The value of his contribution was emphasised as the last six wickets fell for 66 . |
| 28 | The appearance of the gall bladder mucosa was documented for the last 53 patients and is noted in Table III . |
| 29 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 30 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |