Example sentences of "be [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 3 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 4 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 5 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 6 | This corn-coloured type has been formed in the last 20 or 30 years by absorbing several of the Pyrenean breeds and it was recognised as a breed in its own right in 1962 . |
| 7 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 8 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 9 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 10 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 11 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 12 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 13 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 14 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 15 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 16 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 17 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
| 18 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 19 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 20 | In my opinion , and for the reasons I have tried to formulate , such a refusal would not be consonant with relevant legal principles as they have developed and have been applied in the last 50 years . |
| 21 | Many see their condition as a sign that the realms of men are about to collapse , that they are living in the last days of a dying world . |
| 22 | In Britain also , there is recognition that the progress that has been made in the last fifteen years in increasing the pool of professionally-trained social workers must be matched by similar efforts to upgrade the skills of the paraprofessional work force if the quality of social service provision is to be adequate . |
| 23 | No matter what great advances have been made in the last 12–18 months , there is still an awful lot of blood being shed in the country . |
| 24 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 25 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 26 | Also in the 1930s and 1940s , as has been argued in the last chapter , such scholars as Lazarsfeld , Thurstone , Likert , Stouffer and Guttman had begun to develop a quite different approach to attitudes than had previously been considered . |
| 27 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 28 | KAILZEE GARDENS , Nr Peebles , Scotland Spring , summer and autumn are well represented in the gardens which have been re-created in the last 20 years . |
| 29 | Twelve have been demolished in the last few months . |
| 30 | With no background in research or technology , Fabius will take his time before embarking on radical reorganisation of an area which has already been transformed in the last two years . |