Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 2 | The plan has emerged from a comprehensive study undertaken over the last year , covering such aspects as geology , archaeology , nature conservation , recreation , education , traffic and landscape . |
| 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 | New Roof Installed Within The Last Twelve Months |
| 5 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 6 | Fighting intensified in the last week of December and was reportedly especially heavy around Caxito and Ndalatando , respectively 80 km north-east and 200 km south-east of Luanda . |
| 7 | The light rested on the last of these for some while , then moved upward , searching the end wall . |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government . |
| 9 | The pier had knobs but was derelict , entry barred since the last fire . |
| 10 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 11 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 12 | ‘ What about new work received in the last week ? ’ |
| 13 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 14 | He holed a great putt on the last for a five and we both shot 71s because Nick hit a poor second shot on the last and he took a bogey five as well . |
| 15 | Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city . |
| 16 | The analysis draws throughout on the work done in the last decade by Gruber ( 1974 ) , Herbert ( 1974 , 1977 ) , Ghiselin ( 1975 ) , Ruse ( 1975a , b ; 1979 ) , Schweber ( 1977 , 1980 ) , Kottler ( 1978 ) , Manier ( 1978 ) , Sulloway ( 1979 , 1982a , b ) , Kohn ( 1980 ) , Ospovat ( 1981 ) , and Sloan ( 1983a , b ) and is derived from studies by the present writer ( Hodge , 1982 , 1986 ; Hodge & Kohn , 1986 ) where full reference is made to the documentary sources and secondary literature . |
| 17 | Two aspects which will need careful consideration will be the future role of the Tate Gallery 's outposts , in Liverpool and elsewhere , and the special exhibiting needs of work produced in the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 18 | Much of the new equipment used in the last five Tours is there because LeMond used it first . |
| 19 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 20 | Brief site visits are not sufficient to supervise work effectively and the surveyor must ensure that adequate time is set aside when on site to look closely at the work executed since the last inspection . |
| 21 | In front of the King , the marshes and mud-flats of Earnbank were already filled with struggling men as his own dismounted vanguard disposed of the last of the fifty intruders from the Forth landing . |
| 22 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 23 | Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance ? |
| 24 | It is important to remember the distinction explained in the last chapter between purely generic unascertained goods ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat ’ ) and unascertained goods from a specific bulk ( e.g. ‘ 500 tons of wheat out of the 1,000 tons in the vessel Neptune ’ ) . |
| 25 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 26 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 27 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 28 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 29 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 30 | REPORT prints out the error string associated with the last error which occurred . |