Example sentences of "in the last [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 2 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 3 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 4 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 5 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 6 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 7 | In the vague reference to " his needs " in the last sentence we even get a glimpse of why the question of money is so important for him . |
| 8 | Now er in the last sentence you 've got five marks to give for spelling and punctuation . |
| 9 | Firstly , in the last decade it has consistently met it aim of improving profits and earnings per share by at least 20 per cent a year . |
| 10 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 11 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman will know that in the last year we have also cut interest rates seven times and halved inflation . |
| 13 | But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other . |
| 14 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 15 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 16 | Mel Sterland ( in the last year he played ) |
| 17 | In the last hour they 've added , ’ there was a delay in putting information on the computer records . |
| 18 | He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight . |
| 19 | In the last instance we have social regression . |
| 20 | erm in the last case you mean ? |
| 21 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 22 | of ahi sā that ‘ In the last resort it does not avail to those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love . ’ |
| 23 | Though there is broad agreement on the contents of such books on constitutional law , in the last resort it depends on what academic lawyers consider relevant — and a quick survey of standard textbooks will show that at the margins there are significant variations in what is brought into the orbit of the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 24 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |
| 25 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 26 | The degree of economic specialization might vary from one centre to another , and in the last resort it is not always easy to define what was a town . |
| 27 | In the last resort it is really all because of generosity of the members of this congregation , their friends and neighbours ; and because of that of the people in the City Centre , who know and appreciate our Ministers , our secretary and our Crofters . |
| 28 | Pressed last night on the issue , Mr Havel conceded that in the last resort he would accept the post as head of state . |
| 29 | The Party Secretary , like a British prime minister , could have great influence and authority , but in the last resort he was essentially primus inter pares — first among equals — and had to carry his colleagues with him . |
| 30 | Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres . |