Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 2 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 3 | As a way of encouraging them to return , food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer . |
| 4 | The company 's approach , says chief executive Desmond Pitcher , has been vindicated at last ; boring is in fashion again and the common sense of great British public has prevailed over tinsel and razzmatazz . |
| 5 | THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University . |
| 6 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 7 | The terminology used in discussing literary texts has been left till last because it is the one which has traditionally been most familiar to English teachers . |
| 8 | The best has been left until last however . |
| 9 | The Samin smelter in Sardinia has been closed since last August , with a loss of 68,000 tonnes , and is unlikely to reopen until June . |
| 10 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 11 | This event has been postponed from last October . |
| 12 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 13 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 14 | The tax rebate relating to prior years ' tax paid was recognised in last year 's accounts as an extraordinary tax credit , but has been included in taxation on profit on ordinary activities in these accounts in accordance with FRS3 . |
| 15 | They 'll they 'll have been forced from last Sunday , that was the was n't it ? |
| 16 | The visitors will not have been encouraged by last weekend 's abrupt exit from the French Cup by second division Cannes . |
| 17 | The respect the government accorded them was correspondingly limited : it was significant that among the great civil reforms of the reign that of urban government should have been left until last , and that when enacted it should have concentrated power in the hands of a very narrow élite . |
| 18 | A small survey exhibition of Victor Willing 's work is taking place at Karsten Schubert and at Richard Salmon 's studio in South Edwardes Square , having been postponed from last November ( 11 March-17 April ) . |
| 19 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 21 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 22 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 23 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 24 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |
| 25 | Every other committee , or part of this county council has , with the exception of probation service which we did today , social services and libraries which we did at budget revue , have been funded at last year 's cash limit plus one and a half percent . |
| 26 | Most of Khrushchev 's political career was covered in the first two volumes , but some good titbits have been saved till last . |
| 27 | More than 16,000 mining jobs have been lost since last October when British Coal unveiled its pit-closure programme , leaving a workforce of just 24,000 . |
| 28 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 29 | Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year . |
| 30 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |