Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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1 | or read in last night 's Evening Post |
2 | ABOVE Simon Stern The Pan Book of Famous Quotations , cover illustration , commissioned by Jim Stanton , and exhibited at last year 's AOI Images show . |
3 | The Britches will outlast us both , Helen thought , carrying on in its mindless way until scuppered at last by economic circumstances and the likes of Ron Paget . |
4 | At a rally orchestrated by a housewife and inspired by last weekend 's IRA bombing in Warrington , a series of speakers echoed pleas for an end to more than two decades of terror . |
5 | ‘ We would expect calendar year 1993 , based on the early performance and based on last year , to be a good solid year from a profit perspective , ’ Roach told the news wire . |
6 | Since then , Bleach have released their debut ‘ Eclipse ’ EP — featuring the deliberately droning eight minute ‘ Crimson O ’ — and supported on last autumn 's Ride tour . |
7 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
8 | Phillip Hutton of Knock and Sammy Moore of Willowfield are included in the team for the first time , while dropped from last year are John Nutt ( Pickie ) , Bertie Nixon ( Willowfield ) , Roy McCune ( Ballymena ) and Stan Espie ( Willowfield ) . |
9 | As foreseen in last year 's Annual Report , competitive quotations were sought , and a contract let , for plant operation and maintenance of the Library 's buildings for three years from 1991–92 . |
10 | The resignation follows a government decision to back a Scottish landowner 's amendment to the Scottish National Heritage Bill ( as reported in last month 's issue of Outdoor Action . |
11 | Such is the interest in his John Major commemorative mug ( as reported in last week 's column ) that Peter Jones , the Wakefield china magnate , is considering bringing out one of Edward Heath , to mark his Garter knighthood . |
12 | THE New Hemlington Pastoral Centre benefitted from the recent Annual Charity Social , as reported in last month 's ‘ Voice ’ . |
13 | As reported in last year 's Annual Report , the most serious factor in relation to purchasing for 1989–90 , owing to Government 's failure to meet the cost of nationally-negotiated pay awards over recent years , was the need to divert purchasing funds to pay essential salary costs during the year , thereby causing substantial reductions in the purchases of printed books of all periods , as well as manuscripts , maps and music . |
14 | As reported in last week 's Herald and Post , results of the tests showed that the creatures present in the water sample were living , but were harmless to humans . |
15 | As reported in last week 's Sunday Life , James Rusbridger , a retired senior official in the counter espionage agency MI6 and cousin of spy-catcher Peter Wright , claimed it was ‘ quite common practice ’ for MI5 officers to trawl through ballot papers after elections in Northern Ireland . |
16 | Commenting on the appointment , The Hindu of June 8 stated that Verma assumed charge at a critical time " when terrorist activity has increased as compared to last year , and the law and order machinery appears demoralized " . |
17 | THE PRICE of Royal Enclosure tickets at this year 's Royal Tournament is £23.00 and not £22.00 as printed in last month 's Wavelength . |
18 | Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month . |
19 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
20 | REM 's new album ‘ Automatic For The People ’ , will not ‘ divorce the band from their teenybopper fans ’ , as suggested in last week 's news story . |
21 | YOU do n't have to watch a free-kick for a pantomime as suggested in last week 's column . |