Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 32 | Many students returned to Oxford prior to 1335 , and only seventeen masters , six parish priests and fourteen students were found in the last inquisition . |
| 33 | With this achieved and with Rodrigo again in command of Valencia , the cards were dealt for the last hand between the Champion of Spain and the wily Moorish Emir . |
| 34 | Peace talks scheduled for March 19 between Azerbaijan and Armenia , in the context of the CIS summit in Kiev [ see p. 38825 ] , were abandoned at the last minute . |
| 35 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 36 | In 1990 , Heritage Minister , David Mellor said the press were drinking at the last chance saloon . |
| 37 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 38 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |
| 39 | Yesterday Essex were taken to the last over by first-class newcomers Durham before securing a four-wicket win in a 50-over friendly at Chelmsford . |
| 40 | So , the final batch of Computex machines were delivered during the last week of August to the Liverpool subcontractor , who promised to deliver the ZX machines on or before the last day of August . |
| 41 | The crimes that are put under these headings were identified in the last chapter , but that such distinctions are made is clear , for example , in the casual remarks the police make when responding to the respective incidents . |
| 42 | On the other hand , though , all descriptions of climbing here were excluded from the last Pembroke guide by the Climbers ' Club 's editor for the volume . |
| 43 | Whilst not strictly an aeroplane book , it nevertheless gives the reader an overview of how land , sea and air operations were co-ordinated during the last world conflict . |
| 44 | Two such papers were tabled at the last TCP meeting : a submission from Metropolitan Section to the Traffic Director for London commenting on the Draft Network Plan and a response from the North Western Section to PIEDA 's Regional Economic Strategy paper . |
| 45 | But the fireworks were reserved for the last six holes , each of which he birdied . |
| 46 | Our minutes were lost in the last Great War . |
| 47 | erm Southwell centenary , which is next year if you recall , erm we 've at a previous meeting I raised this erm the point with councillors that next year is our centenary of our formation , we do n't have any archives unfortunately , er they were lost in the last sort of decade . |
| 48 | Over here , the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 33.7 points to 2,812.2 by the close of business , of which 24 points were lost in the last 90 minutes of trading . |
| 49 | With doubled CO 2 ( Fig. 3 c ) denitrification again occurred but concentrations of N y lower than about 1p.p.b.v. were maintained until the last 10 days of the simulation when downward transport restored the higher values . |
| 50 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 51 | The conclusion is confirmed by the social class distribution of positive , negative and neutral responses to questions about housework tasks , some of which were described in the last chapter . |
| 52 | Although he died around 1307 , his memory is preserved on the Langtoft Cross which was erected by the last Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere on the small green at the southern end of the village . |
| 53 | I am delighted that the value added tax position was eased in the last Budget . |
| 54 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 55 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 56 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 57 | THE FINAL POLICY RULES GOVERNing at Park Royal , news of which was broken in the last issue of Guinness Today , have still to be finalised . |
| 58 | A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 59 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 60 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |