Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 2 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 3 | Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year . |
| 4 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 5 | Director of public relations , Linda Moore says : ‘ Rates are pegged at last year 's prices for most holidays , with special interests up slightly , but not as a result of the Directive . |
| 6 | Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway . |
| 7 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 8 | THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University . |
| 9 | Most of Khrushchev 's political career was covered in the first two volumes , but some good titbits have been saved till last . |
| 10 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 11 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 12 | This event has been postponed from last October . |
| 13 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |
| 14 | A small survey exhibition of Victor Willing 's work is taking place at Karsten Schubert and at Richard Salmon 's studio in South Edwardes Square , having been postponed from last November ( 11 March-17 April ) . |
| 15 | The Samin smelter in Sardinia has been closed since last August , with a loss of 68,000 tonnes , and is unlikely to reopen until June . |
| 16 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 17 | The company 's approach , says chief executive Desmond Pitcher , has been vindicated at last ; boring is in fashion again and the common sense of great British public has prevailed over tinsel and razzmatazz . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 19 | The seeds are based on last year 's First Division averages . |
| 20 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 21 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 22 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 23 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |
| 24 | If this should happen , and the long-suppressed voice of moderate , long-suffering English people should be heard at last , that voice might well be captured , taken over and perverted by genuine ‘ extremists ’ and ‘ fascists ’ for abhorrent and evil purposes . |
| 25 | The sometimes insensitive and arbitrary methods employed in carrying out the regrading exercise has aroused scorn , derision and even despair from those who were led to believe that substantial pay increases were to be honoured at last . |
| 26 | Now they 're going to be pegged at last year 's level . |
| 27 | Will he be caught at last , and put to death ? |
| 28 | Now the village 's secrets were to be revealed at last . |
| 29 | THE secret of Norwich 's rise to the top can be revealed at last — it 's brain power ! |
| 30 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |