Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 2 | Two aspects which will need careful consideration will be the future role of the Tate Gallery 's outposts , in Liverpool and elsewhere , and the special exhibiting needs of work produced in the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 3 | However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] . |
| 4 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 5 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 6 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 7 | In order to look more closely at the assistance reading can give to growth — in both its cognitive ( intellectual ) and affective ( emotional ) aspects — we adopt the list of types of development mentioned in the last chapter . |
| 8 | How far is it congruent , or in competition with , the model of grammar outlined in the last chapter ? |
| 9 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 10 | This brings us back , at long last , to the choice between the narrow and the comprehensive principles of neutrality broached in the last section . |
| 11 | The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks . |
| 12 | Numerous food scares and the dramatic rise in reported cases of food poisoning over the last few years , plus the need to comply with European Community requirements led to the Food Safety Bill , now nearly two years old . |
| 13 | This will become increasingly important as efforts continue to integrate mentally handicapped people into the society of which they are a part , to reverse the policy of segregation begun in the last century . |
| 14 | ‘ It would need a change of culture compared with the last 13 years , ’ said one senior civil servant . |