Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] in the last " in BNC.
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1 | It had slipped my mind in the last awful seconds , but it all goes to show the value of a good education . |
2 | Following my disclosure in the last issue that escalating costs and reduced financial expectations had forced the United States Tennis Association to contemplate a major re-think of plans for the rebuilding of Flushing Meadow , I hear that the French Federation has also run into problems over the upgrading and expansion of Roland Garros . |
3 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
4 | Before he boarded the team coach for the Midlands , Ironside said : ‘ I never expected I would get my chance in the last game of the season . |
5 | of manufacturing jobs were lost in Barry in my constituency in the last Conservative recession , manufacturing growth is down 3.7 per cent . |
6 | Besides , I set my tale in the last century and not today , because that is a convention which readers like . ’ |
7 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
8 | My involvement in the last meeting of the Accident Investigation and prevention Division in 1979 was also rather significant for similar reasons . |
9 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
10 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
11 | Our last question concerned ‘ inaccessible by the young ’ ; And Eliot replied that , according to the OED , ‘ by ’ was a permissible use with ‘ inaccessible ’ as well as ‘ to ’ , and in his opinion its presence in the last line sounded better . |
12 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
13 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
14 | Confidence has risen markedly since the defeat at Elland Road ; the parts are falling neatly into place and some of their football in the last three games against Hull , Widnes and Featherstone has been exhilarating . |
15 | Johnson ( 1988 ) observes that this decrease is not a new phenomenon but is a continuation of trends which have their origin in the last century . |
16 | ‘ The industry has cleaned up its act in the last few years and we import from restricted countries , ’ said the timber merchant . |
17 | All cities have changed their appearance in the last decade . |
18 | Publicans have mixed feelings about their business in the last 3 days . |
19 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
20 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
21 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
22 | This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling . |
23 | From sample surveys of some ten villages in different regions of China and at different levels of income this project will map out differences in the scope and ranges of resources which rural householders in China have had at their disposal in the last few years . |
24 | Children are ranged in order of their performance in the last test . |
25 | But after they had lost their first five wickets with only 134 on the board , Rutherford and Blain swung the balance back in their favour in the last 45 minutes , adding 34 runs to take their side agonisingly close to squaring the series after a humiliating innings and 60-run defeat in Christchurch . |
26 | Likud had portrayed the elections as a test of political strength and was disappointed with the result although it improved slightly on its performance in the last elections in 1985 [ see p. 34008 ] . |
27 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
28 | But if Labour 's leaders misplayed their hand in the last week , Paddy Ashdown 's behaviour was more damaging by far . |
29 | As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south . |
30 | LEG spinner Ian Salisbury , left out of the England tour squad for India , sent Lancashire crashing to one of the worst championship defeats in their history in the last Old Trafford match of the season against Sussex . |