Example sentences of "year [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its US business was profitable in fiscal 1991-92 , where it lost money the previous year , said Bernard Chapot , vice president-director general , and its revenues this fiscal year should top $40m , from approximately $39.5m last year . |
| 32 | Last year , it managed to raise £150 million , while the sale of its hotels this year should raise a further £100 million . |
| 33 | The fact that we have a Scottish President combined with the fact that this Division do not hold their dinners every year should guarantee an evening to remember ! |
| 34 | While ‘ it is too soon to be sanguine ’ , the board says , it believes the worst is over for its portfolio , and that with the benefit of devaluation for the whole of the second half , earnings for the full year should allow the trust 's record of dividend progress to be maintained . |
| 35 | At what time of the year should woodworm be treated ? |
| 36 | Her progress next year should determine whether tennis 's loss will be Oxford 's gain or vice-versa . |
| 37 | The prize for the most unfortunate advertisement this year must go to Mobil , the oil major , for yesterday 's offering in the Financial Times . |
| 38 | All that celebratory burning of good kindling at the onset of the darkest and longest months of the year must assuage some deep primitive need . |
| 39 | All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels . |
| 40 | Babies up to one year must use a suitable seat or restrained carrycot , if available . |
| 41 | Easter that year must have been one of the mixed joy and sadness when many old members returned after the War whilst others did not . |
| 42 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 43 | This year might represent a compromise with regard to the those two opposition positions which again I would suggest are something that perhaps owes more to than it does to actual political affiliation . |
| 44 | A school with , for example , a difficult second year might need and could be offered a selection from in-service training for staff , an analysis/assessment exercise focused on the whole or particular parts of the school , a support teacher for particular departments , some kind of on-site unit , some share in off-site provision . |
| 45 | This year might see a difference , especially now the Foundry climbing wall is open . |
| 46 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 47 | £150 a year might seem expensive for an actress at the beginning of her career , but look what you got for it , and with Charles sharing the rent as well as the bed , what could be more acceptable in a period of economic pressure when whisky cost the exorbitant price of 12s. 6d. a bottle ? |
| 48 | That 's an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures , a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in , in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year . |
| 49 | It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three . |
| 50 | A big quake this year could do the same . |
| 51 | EUROPEAN funding for the Highlands worth £20 million a year could cover health initiatives — the first time that spending on health has been considered for such grant aid . |
| 52 | Besides , the advent of a National Lottery next year could make a nonsense of the strategy 's premises about funding . |
| 53 | But the prospects that the North-west economy might not be as buoyant next year could affect our performance in 1990 . ’ |
| 54 | Before long West Germany 's Bundestag may confront the same problem : the federal elections late next year could give the Republicans enough votes to achieve representation — and not necessarily at the expense of Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's Free Democrats . |
| 55 | Moves towards fiscal harmonisation within the European Community after this year could lead to lower diesel fuel prices in Britain , too . |
| 56 | Savings in a full year could reach £1 million if momentum is maintained . |
| 57 | A similar delay this year could spell the end of Sudan 's civil war , unless the SPLA can regroup and mend differences . |
| 58 | Pacino may pick a consolation Supporting Oscar for his hunchback in Dick Tracy , but this year could see instead ‘ length of service ’ Oscars for Richard Harris ( first nominated in 1963 for This Sporting Life ) and Joanne Woodward ( first nominated in 1957 for The Three Faces of Eve ) . |
| 59 | 1,000 jobs were lost in the UK , and this year could see the end of IBM 's ‘ no involuntary redundancy ’ policy . |
| 60 | The newspaper Liberation believes that Bull 's operating loss for the full year could hit $185m , with net losses exceeding $370m . |