Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company-wide employee programmes described in last year 's report have continued during 1992 . |
| 2 | After last week 's boat debacle , the tale takes a stranger twist with a mysterious telephone advert placed in last week 's NME asking ‘ Who 's Taking The Pistols ? ’ |
| 3 | OWNERS whose homes have crashed in value will have to pay the new council tax based on LAST YEAR 'S higher prices . |
| 4 | After a meeting with Syria 's President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus , the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , said he was optimistic about resuming peace talks suspended since last December . |
| 5 | Another up-and-coming Middlesbrough and Cleveland athlete , Jeffrey Anderson , is recovering from a hamstring injury received in last month 's Mandale Open meeting . |
| 6 | Hundreds of thousands of workers can expect up to £65 each after many firms failed to bring in the new 20p tax rate introduced in last April 's Budget . |
| 7 | The engine ran in Japan last month in a development chassis based on last year 's turbocar . |
| 8 | Three exhibition catalogues generated by last year 's quasi-celebrations |
| 9 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 10 | Celtic Chief will be out of action for a year while he recovers from a leg injury sustained in last season 's Champion Hurdle . |
| 11 | ( 1983 ) , who used partial data ( unemployment registers classified by last employment ) for the period 1979–82 to conclude that the regional north/south split was as important as the urban/rural split , and that future growth would probably be dominated by free-standing towns in the ‘ sun-belt ’ of the southeast . |
| 12 | He is merely suspected of not having told the authorities of a 50 million lire ( £21,000 ) contribution to the costs of having election posters printed in last April 's general election . |
| 13 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 14 | There will be 34 starters headed by Kevin Schwantz in poll position followed by last year 's champion Wayne Rainey . |
| 15 | NorthWest Digital Systems , Seattle , California , was demonstrating an X Terminal design based around the new chip , called Wildcat 2 — the second generation of its original Wildcat design launched at last year 's show . |
| 16 | Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London : |
| 17 | The only National Front MP elected in last year 's general election , Mrs Yann Piat , said she resigned from the party a year ago because she ‘ realised that the Front was a dead-end movement and a danger to our country . ’ |
| 18 | The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 . |