Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parting remarks last night had suggested he did not believe anything they had told him . |
| 2 | The Sunderland board met last night when the ticket distribution was the main item on the agenda . |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co announced last week that it has realigned its Computer Systems Organisation to provide closer co-ordination among its units . |
| 4 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 5 | Supposedly the policy National Heritage announced last November without cogent explanation was the result of ‘ an internal review ’ . |
| 6 | Yet this model is deeply flawed , as New Scientist revealed last week ( 27 January , p 220 ) . |
| 7 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 8 | The Scotsman disclosed last week that the CRE had begun a formal investigation into the issue , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 9 | The major audit firms have also expressed serious reservations about some elements in the APB 's package that appeared in exposure drafts last May on going concern and an extended audit report . |
| 10 | The budget proposed last week by EC research minister Antonio Ruberti for Europe-wide research requests ECU13.1 billion ( US$15.8 billion ) over the next four years . |
| 11 | True drama unfolded in the third round of the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy for more than one reason , as reigning champions David Lloyd , Slazenger Heston were almost certainly dethroned by event newcomers Royal Berkshire , and Team Excel Bath missed out on a golden opportunity to displace last year 's Area 8 champions West Hants . |
| 12 | London Underground admitted last night that it was buying more and more from overseas . |
| 13 | BIG guns pounding embattled Bosnians could fall silent under UN control within 11 days , under a deal agreed last night . |
| 14 | Gholamreza Awazadeh , the country 's oil minister , said the move was in line with the deal agreed last week by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to trim supplies in an attempt to support prices . |
| 15 | The Northern Echo revealed last month that Darlington council failed to give any money to celebrate the anniversary of North Road railway station . |
| 16 | The government prudently used most of its bonus to rebuild the foreign-exchange reserves ; it also restored the 10% cut made last year in public-sector salaries , and raised pensions by 5% . |
| 17 | In what looks like a remarkable commentary on the nature of its agreement with IBM Corp for the RS/6000 , Wang Laboratories Inc is to market Hewlett Packard Co 's Unix machines under a deal announced last week . |
| 18 | Mr Chris Patten , the Environment Secretary , yesterday moved to mitigate the effects of the Inland Revenue revaluation by announcing that the poundage will be set at 34.8 pence in the pound instead of the provisional figure of 36 pence in the pound announced last month . |
| 19 | Following questions in Parliament , the Department of Trade and Industry announced last October that ‘ oversized ’ cuffs and certain linking chains , which could be used for the same purpose as leg irons , had been evading UK export controls , and would be restricted . |
| 20 | I draw the attention of the Secretary of State to a damaging allegation made last week by the chairman of the Northern Ireland Conservative party and its prospective parliamentary candidate for North Down that the Secretary of State , by initiating talks between unionists and nationalists , provided the greatest possible encouragement for the murderous IRA campaign . |
| 21 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 22 | The Northern Echo reported last week that Darlington Council had not made a contribution to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the North Road railway station . |
| 23 | More than 800 islanders died when the volcano erupted last year and 31 have been killed by mudflows since mid-August |
| 24 | His second disappointment came last year when the Bath hooker returned for the deciding group game against Berkshire . |
| 25 | But a spokesman for Mr Major said the Government was satisfied that a deal negotiated last July between the US and the EC acting for Britain , Germany , Spain and France — the four partners in the Airbus project — was not an unfair subsidy . |
| 26 | Keen investors pumped more than £2,260 million into Personal Equity Plans last year — taking the total invested since the scheme was lauched in January 1987 to more than £6 billion . |
| 27 | With the first test against the West Indies just two days away , and after the humiliation suffered last summer at the hands of the Aussies , in regaining the ashes , the Test and County Cricket Board has launched a scheme of excellence so that the country 's test prospects can be spotted that much earlier . |
| 28 | It was poised to get into the new expanded premier league in the sport , until news of the closure came last night . |
| 29 | The Queensferry side blitzed the Cobras with 16 goals in the last period to notch their highest total since the club reformed last year . |
| 30 | SUPPORT for Britain 's coal industry came last night from an unexpected quarter as the right wing pressure group Aims of Industry called for a wide ranging review . |