Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 2 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 3 | For patients with iterative studies , only mean gastric cell densities obtained from the last set of biopsy specimens or from the gastrectomy specimen were taken in consideration . |
| 4 | Many books published in the last decade or so seem to underline the importance of ‘ anticipatory grieving ’ , with the result that relatives and friends can be forced into expressing emotion they may not yet be ready to express . |
| 5 | As Personal Assistant to John Watson , prepare a report reviewing Palatine Ales ' position following the successful conclusion of the takeover battle , evaluating the proposals made at the last Board meeting , and submitting your recommendations regarding future policy . |
| 6 | The migration component has to be based on estimates gauged from a variety of sources like the Electoral Register , the NHS Central Register , the International Passenger Survey , and the migration patterns revealed by the last census . |
| 7 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 8 | Fears of large-scale coastal flooding were averted as the fierce winds shifted at the last minute . |
| 9 | However , further pit closures are inevitable in the productivity battle , because the 65 million tonnes agreed for the last year of the contract is likely to shrink to fewer than 50 million , at best . |
| 10 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 11 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 12 | Indeed , in theory all that is required is that a sufficient number of direct iterations is made , with the columns orthogonalised as the last step ; in practice , however , the numbers would become increasingly ill-conditioned as S is raised to a high power and approximates to a unit rank matrix . |
| 13 | In a one-syllable utterance , the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter . |
| 14 | Again , among Baptists , a survey of 248 new buildings erected in the last decade of the century shows that of the total , 60 per cent cost under £2,000 and 42 per cent cost under £1,000 . |
| 15 | More obvious trends are visible among the external towers added during the last phase of defensive activity in the mid fourth century . |
| 16 | Essex , one of the new universities born of the last years of Macmillan 's rule , was occupied . |
| 17 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 18 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 19 | MYSTERY glass explosions have occurred at a number of UK buildings constructed during the last decade . |
| 20 | It is appropriate to begin with the forms of propaganda adopted to convey the particular arguments and the broader ideological perspectives analysed in the last chapter . |
| 21 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 22 | In this chapter I want to examine how some of the ideas outlined in the last chapter can redirect explorations of some Renaissance texts . |
| 23 | However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work . |
| 24 | The policy of centralization and definition of royal rights adopted by the last Capetians exposed the incompatibility between the French insistence on the full rights of suzerainty and the English king 's desire for freedom of action for himself and his officials in the duchy . |
| 25 | The catalogue part of the book is devoted to important paintings sold over the last decade , many of which explain the firm 's reputation today for adventurous taste . |
| 26 | Two years ago , Master Solper could get you anything ; a piece of cloth from the napkins used at the Last Supper , a hair from the beard of St Joseph , part of a toy once used by the Baby Christ . |
| 27 | However , both Sir David Plastow , the Vickers chairman , and Peter Ward , the Rolls-Royce Motors chairman and chief executive , insist that the gloom has been overdone and that structural changes introduced in the last year have made the company leaner and more efficient . |
| 28 | Partly , this underlines the problems discussed in the last chapter — the factors which can tip a reliable payer into arrears . |
| 29 | This is the same problem that many businesses faced in the last century when they had to produce balance sheets . |
| 30 | All three of the agencies mentioned in the last paragraph have recently been the subject of central limitations to their activities or curbs upon their freedom ! |