Example sentences of "[vb infin] in the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
2 | I and some others have tried to do something about it because you 'll remember in the last year last two years , we have put in a a sum of money in the budget to increase the allowances for members and for resources to support members . |
3 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
4 | I shall return in the last part of this book to discuss the realistic potential for both the renewables and conservation in more detail and within a non-nuclear energy policy . |
5 | I AM one of those ‘ stupid idiots ’ who did not vote in the last election ( Letters , September 6 ) . |
6 | He told the committee : ‘ The number of trains run in the off-peak must depend in the last instance on the views of the operator . ’ |
7 | Erm you notice here that the amount is , did n't alter in the last budget . |
8 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
9 | The opportunity that they now have is to become independent production companies , an opportunity that they did not have in the last round of licence decisions . |
10 | If precedes , as in ‘ Boston ’ , a final syllabic nasal is less frequent , while clusters formed by nasal + plosive + syllabic nasal are very unusual : thus ‘ Minton ’ , ‘ lantern ’ , ‘ London ’ , ‘ abandon ’ will normally have in the last syllable and be pronounced , , , . |