Example sentences of "was [verb] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am delighted that the value added tax position was eased in the last Budget . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 6 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The sociological neglect of housework was demonstrated in the last chapter . |
| 14 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | KF 's core business , however , has always been retailing , although its rank in the market was slipping in the last ten years . |
| 19 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 20 | The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ . |
| 21 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 22 | The furniture industry ( 4 on the map ) was on the city outskirts when it was started in the last century . |
| 23 | The use of recordings of visiting speakers was discussed in the last chapter . |
| 24 | As was discussed in the last chapter variations with exposure and intensity are approximately linear within certain bounds and it would be reasonable to correct for them by division . |
| 25 | And speculation was fuelled in the last 10 minutes of South Africa 's second innings when West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor called up Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin to discuss damage to the ball . |
| 26 | ‘ He was killed in the last war , before I was born . |
| 27 | The first step also included tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate ( TRITC ) labelled rabbit anti-L1 or unlabelled rabbit anti-S-100 protein whose red signal was achieved in the last incubation step by means of TRITC labelled anti-rabbit IgG . |
| 28 | If the building was constructed in the last century , there is some possibility that the original planning application is still on file , complete with the architect 's original drawings . |
| 29 | Second , as was mentioned in the last chapter , one important function of authoritative directives is to establish and help sustain conventions . |
| 30 | As for the possibility of granting certain persons dispensation from the nationality condition , which was mentioned in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) , the Commission referred to Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands v. van Tiggele ( Case 82/77 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 25 and Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje ( Case 27/80 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 3839 , from which it appeared that the existence of such a possibility did not redeem a national measure which was incompatible with Community law . |