Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Community , which agreed last week progressively to lift economic sanctions against Serbia , should back the Americans by putting its offer on hold until the federal army withdraws and the irregulars are disbanded . |
| 2 | Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium . |
| 3 | There is no sense of accountability in a council such as Edinburgh , which sought last year to tax residents at £584 per head . |
| 4 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 5 | Beyond the Seventies pastiche which swamped last season 's collections , there is a strong appetite for simplicity and something which perhaps evokes an emphasis on inner beauty . |
| 6 | Mr Parkinson is concerned that the cost over-runs of the tunnel , which rose last month by £1bn to an estimated £7bn , could be repeated in the building of the rail link from Folkestone to London . |
| 7 | THE recent controversy over the All Blacks ' over-abrasive rucking methods against both New South Wales and England ‘ B ’ — and the injuries which sidelined four Australian and one English player ( see page 30 ) — bring to mind a disturbing complaint which surfaced last season in Britain . |
| 8 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 9 | Abdoulaye Wade , leader of the opposition party in Senegal , was arrested after the murder of the vice-president of the constitutional council , which oversaw last week 's general election . |
| 10 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 11 | For example , Virgin Holidays ( 0293–617181 ) offers a seven-night holiday at Disney 's Port Orleans Resort , which opened last year close to the Epcot Centre , at £679 per person for one week , or £899 for two weeks , including passes and nonstop flight to Orlando . |
| 12 | A new hotel which opened last year , the Mutiara has lived up to expectations as the island 's most luxurious hotel . |
| 13 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 14 | ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month . |
| 15 | The last show to be mounted by Wolfgang Fischer and his wife Jutta at their King Street Gallery will be of David Tindle 's paintings , including the ‘ Madame le Goalher series ’ , which opened last month . |
| 16 | The new NEC High Performance Computing Software Development Center in Switzerland , which opened last month in the same building as CSCS , will by the end of this year give a limited number of outside users access to its Cenju-2 parallel supercomputer , says A. Scheidegger , director of CSCS . |
| 17 | Sharon Hills parents John and Shiela turned up to the inquest into their daughters death — which happened last month when she was visiting egypt . |
| 18 | The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm , which folded last year , owed . |
| 19 | She tells me others agree — and she 's thrilled about the phone calls which followed last night 's local radio slot . |
| 20 | The Southern Rivers Project , which began last year and is funded by English Heritage , is concerned about the future preservation of nationally important Paleolithic sites . |
| 21 | Negotiations , which began last year , have been continuing since the collapse of the its parent company , Lilley , seven weeks ago . |
| 22 | Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago . |
| 23 | KINGFISHER , the group which owns Woolworth , Comet , Superdrug and B&Q , yesterday launched ‘ permanent ’ price cuts on 500 of B&Q 's product lines , extending the price-cutting policy which began last year with paint . |
| 24 | The Taking Account programmes , publicised yesterday , are the latest step in a consultation process to gauge the opinions of pupils , parents and teachers which began last year with the production of information packs and questionnaires . |
| 25 | Former teen idol Bobby Vee , guitar star Duane Eddy and Little Eva are also performing at the shows , which began last night in Manchester . |
| 26 | Rugby Union now , and Mark Eagon , the Oxford University rugby captain has invited Errol Norwitz who gained blues in 1988 and 1989 , to be his vice-captain for the coming term which includes the University 's pre-season tour of the Far East which began last week . |
| 27 | The EC hopes that the project , which began last month , will increase user confidence in the potential of the European massively parallel computers and will create a report on high-performance computing in Europe , compiled by CERN director for the EC , concludes that Europe can compete effectively with US companies , traditionally the leaders in the supercomputing field , provided that the support is given to overcome the perennial problem of turning basic research results into competitive products . |
| 28 | More than 5,000 competitors from 405 organisations took part in the Games , which finished last month . |
| 29 | This year 's , which finished last week , was hailed as a great success with children from the most disadvantaged parts of the city taking part in a number of activities , including canoeing , swimming , rowing , water safety and windsurfing . |
| 30 | Bohunt volunteered for the first year , which started last autumn . |