Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] last [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 4 | Director of public relations , Linda Moore says : ‘ Rates are pegged at last year 's prices for most holidays , with special interests up slightly , but not as a result of the Directive . |
| 5 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 6 | Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway . |
| 7 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 're talking about last year are n't you ? |
| 10 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 13 | The seeds are based on last year 's First Division averages . |
| 14 | Now if Hereford are to build on last week 's success they need to get at least a draw at Gigg lane . |
| 15 | Now they 're going to be pegged at last year 's level . |
| 16 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |
| 17 | No entry will be accepted after last post on Friday August 28 , 1992 . |
| 18 | No entry will be accepted after last post on Wednesday September 30 , 1992 . |
| 19 | ( Chlorine , though , already one of the main commodity businesses when ICI began in the 1920s , still accounts for a remarkable 12% of total sales ; the proportion will be reduced by last month 's decision to shut two chlorine plants at Hillhouse , Lancashire . ) |
| 20 | That 's a question which might be asked after last week 's thoroughly enjoyable Carrowdore 100 which however saw only a handful of riders on the line in each race except the classic . |
| 21 | The women 's squad look likely to be headed by last year 's bronze medal pair , Fiona Freckleton and Miriam Batten , who return on Tuesday from altitude training in Mexico . |
| 22 | The assessors will be working on last autumn 's crop soon enough , and the job will ensure that no one in the household asks any questions . |
| 23 | At this stage it seems likely the Ormeau side will be banking on last year 's squad . |
| 24 | Pardon my smiles , white-collar pondies , but no way would this ragged gash in the ground be mollified by last week 's Sun . |
| 25 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 26 | When gamma equals one all the weight is given to last year 's price all the weight is given to last year 's price okay right , so past history , all past history is ignored apart from the price at T minus one right and the closer that gamma is our expectations co-efficient , closer gamma is to one , the more weight be attached to last year 's price , relative to the previous history of prices okay right . |
| 27 | It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing . |
| 28 | The visitors will not have been encouraged by last weekend 's abrupt exit from the French Cup by second division Cannes . |
| 29 | The following exhibitions were listed in last month 's column and deserve recognition before they close : the large exhibition of sculpture , paintings and miniatures by Francesco Clemente at Anthony d'Offay ( to 30 April ) , Catherine Lee 's beautifully patinated wall reliefs at Annely Juda |
| 30 | A 5 p.c. reduction in gross margins on lower-margin desk-top computer products and the weakness in the market were blamed for last year 's downturn but ICL says its share of the British computer market rose by one point to 19 p.c . |