Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] last " 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 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 5 | Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway . |
| 6 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most of Khrushchev 's political career was covered in the first two volumes , but some good titbits have been saved till last . |
| 9 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This event has been postponed from last October . |
| 12 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |
| 13 | A small survey exhibition of Victor Willing 's work is taking place at Karsten Schubert and at Richard Salmon 's studio in South Edwardes Square , having been postponed from last November ( 11 March-17 April ) . |
| 14 | The Samin smelter in Sardinia has been closed since last August , with a loss of 68,000 tonnes , and is unlikely to reopen until June . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The company 's approach , says chief executive Desmond Pitcher , has been vindicated at last ; boring is in fashion again and the common sense of great British public has prevailed over tinsel and razzmatazz . |
| 17 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |
| 18 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 19 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 20 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 23 | The visitors will not have been encouraged by last weekend 's abrupt exit from the French Cup by second division Cannes . |
| 24 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 25 | They 'll they 'll have been forced from last Sunday , that was the was n't it ? |
| 26 | Controversial matters , such as the Investment Services Directive , European Company Statute , the Thirteenth Company Law Directive concerning takeover and other general bids , the Tenth Company Law Directive concerning cross-border mergers between public limited companies , and the Company Taxation Directive concerning arrangements for taking losses into account , have been left until last and it is not at all certain whether all or most of these directives will be adopted by the end of 1992 . |
| 27 | The best has been left until last however . |
| 28 | The respect the government accorded them was correspondingly limited : it was significant that among the great civil reforms of the reign that of urban government should have been left until last , and that when enacted it should have concentrated power in the hands of a very narrow élite . |
| 29 | The terminology used in discussing literary texts has been left till last because it is the one which has traditionally been most familiar to English teachers . |
| 30 | The air seemed to have been cleared at last and evening surgery raised their spirits even more . |