Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 2 | So many people are having very hard things demanded of them , and our prisons have been vastly reformed in the last 30 years or so . |
| 3 | According to this neo-populist view , which was outlined before the revolution and developed in the 1920s but has been vigorously reasserted in the last two decades , the spread of the market was not having the expected impact on peasant society . |
| 4 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 5 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 6 | Examples of these are the Commission 's own proposals to extend privileges for unconvicted prisoners on remand to convicted prisoners awaiting sentence [ which will encourage early guilty pleas ] and the adjustment of legal aid fee scales to encourage more early preparatory work by counsel so that important decisions are not made at the last minute . |
| 7 | Un-expected frequency changes are always offered by the last controller in the UK , alleviating a panic reference to paperwork . |
| 8 | The property has been electrically rewired within the last twelve months . |
| 9 | Payments are usually made on the last working day of every month . |
| 10 | Details of relevant contacts are usually typed on the last page of the release as follows : |
| 11 | Nigel Newton explains this figure as a reflection of the ‘ very strong final quarter which Bloomsbury had that year , and in particular the strong December ’ ; and it is indeed true that trade publishers , whose sales are usually loaded towards the last quarter , generally have high debtors at year end . |
| 12 | It has been repeatedly applied for the last 300 years , most recently in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 . |
| 13 | The economic growth figures have already been marginally trimmed in the last month and may be revised further in a review that will be carried out just before before the publication of the World Economic Outlook on April 23 . |
| 14 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 15 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 16 | Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’ |
| 17 | The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity . |
| 18 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 19 | The GOVERNOR manufacturers have always moved with us , and , for example , the cost of providing a supply from a Transmission main has been substantially reduced in the last few years , by use of skid mounted governor units using small diameter connections from the pipeline . |
| 20 | The arguments have been well rehearsed over the last year . |
| 21 | The melon beds had been virtually deserted for the last two or three days . |
| 22 | Full gas fired central heating is installed and the system has been fully overhauled within the last twelve months . |
| 23 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 24 | The huge debts which Edward inherited from his father were not redeemed until the last four years of his reign when a lengthy if fragile truce with Scotland , together with reform and refinement of treasury administration , and ruthless exactions from the Contrariants and any other offenders , enabled Edward II to leave , as no subsequent medieval king was to do , a solvent crown to his successor . |
| 25 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 26 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 27 | Most of the pupils participating were in the fourth year , but some third years were also included in the last round of testing . |
| 28 | He is the most amiable of men , and perhaps among the most idealistic , qualities that were severely tested in the last week of the by-election when the Conservatives allegedly used his ethnic origins as a campaign issue . |
| 29 | But the traditional Fijian elites , the power and influence of Australian and multinational companies , and US military and strategic interests were seriously threatened by the last duly elected civilian administration , Bavandra 's Labour government . |
| 30 | Stools were quantitatively collected for the last three days ( 72 hours ) of the test . |