Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flaws were pointed out last year in a report by W.S. Atkins consultants , commissioned by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) . |
| 2 | When firefighters were called out last night , both were well ablaze . |
| 3 | AN RAF helicopter and three mountain rescue teams were called out last night to search for eight climbers reported missing on Skye . |
| 4 | Forty of these ancient watchdogs were pensioned off last weekend . |
| 5 | Plans to merge Dunoon and Cowal with neighbouring Isle of Bute to form one area tourist authority were thrown out last month , but a special meeting was convened yesterday in Dunoon to discuss the issue again . |
| 6 | NME was tipped off last week that REM were planning to play an unannounced set with Buck and subsequent reports led to a rush for tickets , described by one insider as ‘ absolutely frantic . ’ |
| 7 | The study which was carried out last year confirms that exercise is associated with a reduced risk of coronary disease only when the exercise is both vigorous and current . |
| 8 | The survey was carried out last year with funding from the Rural Development Commission and Langbaurgh and Cleveland councils , and its results are being distributed throughout the East Cleveland rural development area . |
| 9 | The Darlington Council survey into the ‘ bin it and bag it ’ scheme was carried out last December over several days at various times to determine future action over the project . |
| 10 | They wo n't want to be the one in their class , group or gang who missed buying a ticket having known the show was sold out last time . |
| 11 | You 're quite right , Karl , when you say that every seat was sold out last year for Gypsy Baron . |
| 12 | A special freephone advice line was opened up last Tuesday and was swamped by hundreds of callers . |
| 13 | More than £1.2 billion was handed over last year , although the amount is due to decline until 1998 when the levy will be discontinued . |
| 14 | One was handed out last week . |
| 15 | But Dowty was bought out last year by the Abingdon-based TI Group , who in turn sold the fuel systems operation to Lucas Industries . |
| 16 | Philip Turner was taken to the Radcliffe Infirmary in the city after his nose was , was bitten off last night . |
| 17 | At the top of the list is a European Neutron Source , a successor to the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury that was closed down last month , which many physicists would like to seen built at the Science and Engineering Research Council 's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . |
| 18 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was re-seeded but the seed was drowned out last autumn and difficult weather conditions in the spring means that it has to remain fenced off and unusable for this year 's show . ’ |
| 20 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 21 | It was a marvellous triumph for Price and his caddie Jeff Medlen , who was loaned out last year because Nick had to pull out of this tournament — and he carried the bag of winner John Daly . |
| 22 | Retail , which refuses to disclose the terms of the deal , was set up last year with £10m of City capital and is headed by Malcolm Parkinson , the former B & Q managing director . |
| 23 | The ISE Council yesterday considered a progress report from the special committee on the domestic equity market , chaired by Nigel Elwes , which was set up last year to examine stock market procedures in the wake of the October 1987 crash . |
| 24 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 25 | A working party was set up last July to advise on this University 's contribution to IY , and one of its recommendations , approved by Senate at its meeting of November 18th , is that each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘ shadow ’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry , nominated through CRUM , in the course of the winter term . |
| 26 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 27 | IE Displays Ltd , of Rectory Road , Great Bromley , was set up last May and designs and supplies illuminated acrylic advertisement display cases . |
| 28 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 29 | A change programme ‘ start-up ’ team was set up last month under the leadership of control supervisor Ian Mincher , comprising Stuart Brown ( operations ) , Brian Groat ( control ) , Clive Watt ( electrical ) , Bob Vice ( mechanical ) , James Johnson ( operations support ) and Kenny Pearson ( operations ) . |
| 30 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |