Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] last [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved .
2 Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year .
3 This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation .
4 Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway .
5 THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University .
6 The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 .
7 By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted .
8 The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night .
9 It coped with very long grass from an overgrown lawn which had n't been cut since last year , and produced a satisfactory cut even on the first mowing .
10 The visitors will not have been encouraged by last weekend 's abrupt exit from the French Cup by second division Cannes .
11 Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday .
12 As a way of encouraging them to return , food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer .
13 Every other committee , or part of this county council has , with the exception of probation service which we did today , social services and libraries which we did at budget revue , have been funded at last year 's cash limit plus one and a half percent .
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