Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 2 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 3 | The IAC reported for the last time in January this year and , under the terms of the 1990 continuation order , the 1987 Act is due to expire on 31 March 1992 . |
| 4 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 5 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 6 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 7 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 8 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
| 9 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 10 | Many enthusiasts came for a last look and as each week passed there was a little less of the Woodhead line to photograph . |
| 11 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 12 | However , further pit closures are inevitable in the productivity battle , because the 65 million tonnes agreed for the last year of the contract is likely to shrink to fewer than 50 million , at best . |
| 13 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 14 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 15 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 16 | THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME |
| 17 | Hence the figure of 110.97p calculated for the last published results is not strictly comparable with that ( 131.2p ) calculated for the half-yearly figures . |
| 18 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 20 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 21 | Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced . |
| 22 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 23 | As it dropped like a stone from 6,500ft , Captain Fuchs spoke for the last time . |
| 24 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 25 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 26 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
| 27 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 28 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 29 | Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days . |
| 30 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |