Example sentences of "was [vb pp] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 2 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 3 | Scotland must win the Malta game by a convincing margin , yet Roxburgh could be without McCoist , the scorer of 41 goals for Rangers this season , and Gordon Durie , who was withdrawn last week because of injury . |
| 4 | The Janata Dal was formed last year in an attempt to unite the national opposition . |
| 5 | So they compromised and gave £100 to the Barlow Clowes Investors Group which was formed last July to represent the investors ' interests and co-ordinate the fight for compensation . |
| 6 | The original Community Care Support Force was formed last year to help both health and local authorities prepare for implementation . |
| 7 | The AEEU was formed last May after the Amalgamated Engineering Union merged with the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union . |
| 8 | A NEW think-tank , Demos , was formed last night aimed at encouraging fresh political ideas that are independent of both Right and Left . |
| 9 | Today 's case brings the number of successful prosecutions in the Thames region to thirty four since the N R A was formed last year . |
| 10 | Les Parsons , an ‘ exemplary ’ third-year student at Broadland School of Nursing , was dismissed last July after he refused to continue administering ECT . |
| 11 | And former manager Terry Butcher , who was dismissed last January , has taken out a High Court writ for the remaining two years of his contract — an estimated £500,000 . |
| 12 | THE horror of life in Serb concentration camps was exposed last night in a harrowing ITN film which showed a new Holocaust in the making . |
| 13 | The extent of the problems faced by students at the poly was highlighted last week when it was revealed that some students were living in cars , and others had to turn down places because of the lack of affordable housing . |
| 14 | I think in fact it 's a bit of a cheek for the Chief Constable to go to the Home Secretary here ev , Home Secretary again this year , asking for more officers , when he has n't recruited all the ones that he was given last year . |
| 15 | A similar performance was given last year . |
| 16 | A similar performance was given last year . |
| 17 | The targets I was given last year in my appraisal were n't covered at all this year in my appraisal by the manager , |
| 18 | This was completed last spring . |
| 19 | The revision of this coalfield area relies heavily on computerised systems for data analysis , developed during the survey of the adjacent Morpeth-Bedlington-Ashington district , a thematic mapping project jointly funded with DOE , which was completed last year . |
| 20 | THE last club race of the season was flown last Saturday with the Ulster Federation liberating at Skibbereen ; the East Down at Fermoy and the NIPA at Tramore . |
| 21 | The new chairman will be putting into action the firm 's $4m internal study of international strategy that was developed last year . |
| 22 | Mr Stott replaces Ms Wendy Henry , who was sacked last month after publishing photographs of Prince William urinating in a London park . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the ULFA has the support of a fair chunk of the population and , more important , is in cahoots with the Asom Gana Parishad , the regional Assamese party that ruled the state till it was sacked last year . |
| 24 | Mighty was sacked last year for alleged gross misconduct after it was claimed he harassed a child and had inappropriate talks on sex with ex-residents . |
| 25 | Since Swales took over at Maine Road 20 years ago , City have won only the League Cup and more than a dozen managers have come and gone , including Peter Reid who was sacked last month . |
| 26 | Since the flock was examined last year the survivors have recovered . |
| 27 | Ten women patients and a nurse in the geriatric ward of the Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester have been infected by the disease since the first case was diagnosed last Thursday . |
| 28 | Daniel 's weight plummeted to just over two stone when his condition was diagnosed last February . |
| 29 | Mrs Evans initiated the fundraising at the sorting office on the Cannon Park industrial estate after her daughter , Kerry , 17 , was diagnosed last year as suffering from cancer of the cervix and womb . |
| 30 | Their land was demarcated last year but lack of respect for the boundaries resulted in the killing of a trespasser in July after two warnings were ignored . |