Example sentences of "[subord] [vb pp] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete .
2 Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% .
3 The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table .
4 The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table .
5 The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years .
6 THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years .
7 Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population .
8 Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year .
9 Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months .
10 O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years .
11 The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’
12 If intended as a last step prior to dismissal , such a warning should describe the nature of the offence and make it clear that a repetition will cause you to be dismissed .
13 She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for .
14 ( As explained in the last chapter , REM sleep may be scored as such when hardly any rapid eye movements are occurring , so long as the record of low voltage EEC and reduced EMG continues uninterruptedly . )
15 ( As explained in the last chapter , examples used to illustrate intonation transcription are usually given in spelling form , and you will notice that no punctuation is used ; the reason for this is that intonation and stress are the vocal equivalents of written punctuation , so that when these are transcribed it would be unnecessary or even confusing to include punctuation as well . )
16 Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards .
17 In such conditions as prevailed in the last phase of the Weimar Republic , of the total discrediting of a State system based upon pluralist politics , the ‘ functional ’ leadership of the bureaucrat and the Party politician as the representatives of the impersonal ‘ rational-legal ’ form of political domination , imposing laws and carrying out functions for which they are not personally responsible and with which they are not identifiable , lost credibility .
18 The second class of locative , or local names , are , as hinted in the last sentence , based on place names — such as where a man lived , where he held land , or where he hailed from .
19 The portrait of the study of social policy as presented in the last few paragraphs shows that it is a subject that draws upon a number of different academic disciplines .
20 Wandsworth was the first new store to open with staff wearing the new design , as seen in the last issue of the Journal .
21 The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer .
22 The company says its researchers took six months to extend the concept from a client-server system — as shown at the last Comdex event — to a personal computer .
23 Set out your work as shown on the last page .
24 Solve the following equations setting your work out as shown in the last example : unc This is a useful way of checking your answers , Simply substitute your answer for the letter in the question and both sides of the equation should be equal , Use this method to check your answers .
25 Now work out the following by forming an equation and solving it as shown in the last example .
26 " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . "
27 Such a conference would be in addition to another on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) already convened for December 1990 , as agreed at the last European Council summit in Strasbourg in December 1989 [ see pp. 37131-33 ] .
28 With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture .
29 All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts .
30 Any questions with respect to the application of the word " deployed " as used in the last sentence of paragraph 3 of Article 5 will be decided by the government of the united Germany in a reasonable and responsible way taking into account the security interests of each contracting party as set forth in the preamble .
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