Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 2 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 3 | You are right to note that two of your photos were used in the last magazine . |
| 4 | A survey by Director magazine shows that 337 bosses were prosecuted in the last financial year . |
| 5 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Many students returned to Oxford prior to 1335 , and only seventeen masters , six parish priests and fourteen students were found in the last inquisition . |
| 8 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our minutes were lost in the last Great War . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am delighted that the value added tax position was eased in the last Budget . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 18 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 19 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 20 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 21 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 22 | Lastly , the Spanish Government argued that the possibility afforded by the Act of 1988 of exempting certain persons from the nationality condition to which reference was made in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) in no way altered the foregoing considerations . |
| 23 | You may wonder how this rather high-falutin' talk of vector spaces is related to the simpler language of wave mechanics as it was presented in the last chapter . |
| 24 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Maxwell said that the postponement was agreed in the last few weeks , following a decision to spend heavily next year on unspecified initiatives to increase Mirror Group 's market share . |
| 26 | The sociological neglect of housework was demonstrated in the last chapter . |
| 27 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 28 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 29 | But at the same time , a reverse movement was taking place which was to accelerate in the last decades of the century — the flight from the city centres to the suburbs . |
| 30 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |