Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for [art] last " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services .
2 AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement .
3 AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement .
4 A NEW seam of Welsh gold — used for every Royal wedding ring for the last 70 years — has been found at a mine near Dolgellau .
5 The embassy denied any involvement in the murder of Mohammed Hussein Nagdi , a former diplomat who had headed the Rome office of Iran 's main opposition group for the last 11 years .
6 Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title .
7 In operating partially without paper , the bank is the first of a pilot group of 10 Belgacom clients , which have been experimenting with the phone company 's as-yet-unannounced Electronic Data Interchange service for the last 18 months .
8 But Souness is backing the player who has taken over from Bruce Grobbelaar , Anfield 's first-choice keeper for the last 11 seasons .
9 But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August .
10 The West Indians have ruled Test cricket for the last 15 years through a succession of brilliant fast bowlers and batsmen .
11 Now , as the son came to see the marble bust for the last time , court photographers crowded around to capture the poignancy of the son saying goodbye , presumably with a sense of terrible failure , to the father for whom he had never been good enough .
12 ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’
13 I was responsible for Community Programme for the last 18 months of its life , so I 'm delighted to be involved in introducing Community Action .
14 Julie Peeke , chairwoman of Red Hall Community Centre for the last nine months , sent in her resignation after the committee decided to end postal votes at the centre 's annual general meeting .
15 On 14 December 1989 , she visited the Casa Republicii for the last time and expressed alarm on seeing that one of the decorative features of the stairways leading to the southern entrance of the palace had the image of a cross when seen from high above .
16 Mr Ensoll reflects : ‘ It has been a very varied career working for the Post Office for the last 33 years .
17 Now just going on products , off the compost plant for the last six months , I 've gone through , I 've taken I 've noted down the number of samples taken , each month by month .
18 The Pevensey station has organised a firework display for the last four years .
19 ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’
20 Terence Flanagan , who has been principal of the flagship college for the last six years , takes up his new post in September .
21 The dive log screen displays maximum depth , dive time and surface interval for the last ten dives .
22 A part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments this afternoon marched off the parade ground for the last time .
23 Part of one of Scotland 's most historic regiments has marched off the parade ground for the last time .
24 In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th .
25 In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent .
26 Horst Klosterkemper , chairman of the relevant committee but probably better known as the man who made the European Team Championships in Dusseldorf such a success , acknowledges that the event — without sponsor prize money for the last two years — has lost some of its gloss .
27 Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year .
28 Unix International ( UI ) claims the RoadMap will show that the GUI — an issue which has bedevilled the Unix community for the last four years — ‘ is separable from the operating system . ’
29 But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that .
30 ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’
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