Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly . |
| 2 | They were dismissed against Oldham last week , Evans in the final minute of a 36-6 defeat , after missing the start of the season through injury . |
| 3 | SEVEN new cases of AIDS were reported in Scotland last month , bringing the total to 371 . |
| 4 | THE Ulster veteran 's ladies chances of recapturing the Interprovincial crown were dashed in Cork last night with a 4–1 defeat against holders Leinster . |
| 5 | Although the borders have long since re-opened , Zambia 's relationship with major international bodies like the IMF and the World Bank has ceased : the economic packages prescribed by these organizations were ditched in May last year . |
| 6 | An estimated 5,500 primates were used in Europe last year , according to the report , mostly by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 7 | The company 's other brands , Victory V and Hacks , were bought by Cadbury last week . |
| 8 | The Kennel Club 's Bill Edmond added : ‘ 225 Rottweilers were shown at Crufts last year without a snarl or a growl from any of them . ’ |
| 9 | MORE than 52 million single records were sold in Britain last year , nearly one for every man , woman and child in the country . |
| 10 | The first rules will include a ban on petrol-powered lawn-mowers ( $81 m worth of such mowers were sold in California last year ) . |
| 11 | Three of the five men named in the latest militant list were brought to Srinagar last night . |
| 12 | The band , currently re-equipping after most of their instruments were stolen in Burnley last month , play and London Finsbury Park Cult In The Park Festival ( headlining the second stage ) . |
| 13 | Some variety was brought into the humdrum life at the gallery by the arrival of the Italian carabinieri , who found the works from the Tretyakov which were stolen in Genoa last year . |
| 14 | The two Canadians , Michael Karl McNeil , 26 , and Ralph Wilson , were arrested in April last year in the lobby of the Chiang Mai Orchid Hotel in North Thailand . |
| 15 | A total of 32,350 tonnes of aluminium were recycled in Europe last year ( an increase from 25,000 tonnes in 1990 ) . |
| 16 | Today it 's been revealed the board were warned in March last year about the state of their finances by officials from West Oxfordshire District council . |
| 17 | An estimated 10,000 penguins were killed in Patagonia last year as a result of oil spills and other pollution . |
| 18 | Two hundred and forty cyclists were killed in Britain last year . |
| 19 | Confidence is coming back to Oxford United … three games without defeat does n't make a season but it does build the foundations for the future … tomorrow it 's Leicester City away … no changes to a winning team … the only fresh face is Paul Wanless he takes over from Dave Penney on the bench … form favours Leicester but they were beaten by Stoke last week … and Oxford are on a high … |
| 20 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |
| 21 | The 1992 Waverley Championships were swum at Cranleigh last weekend and Haslemere swimmers came back with 27 medals , just reward for the time and effort they put into their training . |
| 22 | Hitachi Ltd has extended the Precision Architecture RISC-based end of its 3050 Unix workstation family , the first RISC models of which were launched in May last year with the 3050/REsv , based on a 66MHz version of the Hewlett-Packard Co RISC and designed to achieve performance of 76 MIPS . |
| 23 | POEMS on the importance of nursing were read in Iran last week to mark Nursing Day . |
| 24 | It was formed in March last year with the specific purpose of promoting ‘ world class ’ Scotland . |
| 25 | As a member of the West Yorkshire Society 's Club , which was formed in September last year , I can testify to its role in raising morale and the efficacy of one 's personal presentation ; and there is one particular aspect which I feel must be placed on record . |
| 26 | Yet it turns out that Mr Yanagitani , who was dismissed from Daiwa last month , had in recent years turned into an aspiring George Soros . |
| 27 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply and I know that she will have been as horrified as the rest of us by the images and the conflict that was reported from Somalia last weekend . |
| 28 | Lotus Development Corp will this week announce Notes for Unix , claiming that its workgroup software is one of the key applications Unix has been missing : it was previewed at UniForum last week . |
| 29 | Lotus this week will announce Notes for Unix , claiming the workgroup software is one of the key applications Unix has been missing : it was previewed at UniForum last week . |
| 30 | Sadly , there are no plans to screen ‘ Buster 's Bedroom ’ , the film which was previewed in Berlin last April . |