Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [vb pp] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her income support entitlement ended when she obtained maintenance at £5.00 per week but only one payment has been made this year . |
| 2 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 3 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 4 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 5 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 6 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 7 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 8 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 9 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 10 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 11 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 12 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 13 | In July 1969 , the select committee reported in favour of the publication both of the five-year rolling programme in the form of an annual White Paper with a full explanation of what changes had been made that year , and of the Medium Term Economic Assessment . |
| 14 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 15 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 16 | Mairead has been elected this year to the Executive Committee as Tralee Area Secretary . |
| 17 | Considerable quantities of Ecstasy and LSD have been seized this year from buses and cars along the Derry-Donegal border . |
| 18 | TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset . |
| 19 | They will have to prove to the Society that at least 15 minutes of their music has been played each year — fine enough for those who write lengthy pieces , but much more difficult for those who are at heart and in practice miniaturists . |
| 20 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 21 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 22 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 23 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 24 | 150 enquiries had been made this year , and potential students are now seeking funding . |
| 25 | Resources for employment training have been cut this year and for youth training are roughly the same , even though the need is so much greater . |
| 26 | In the period before 1910 about 85,000 new houses had been built each year , but after the introduction of Land Values Duties the building rate fell sharply . |
| 27 | And the Sheikh 's dominance has been maintained this year as he heads the table with some £1.75m in prize money , half a million ahead of his older brother , Hamdan Al Maktoum , who owns Nashwan , with Sangster languishing in 10th place with a mere £250,000 or so in the kitty . |
| 28 | The UK Queen 's Awards for Industry system has been extended this year to include an environmental category , with twelve companies being judged worthy of recognition for a " significant advance " offering " major benefits in environmental terms compared to existing products , technology or processes " . |
| 29 | A new formative assessment for third year students has been introduced this year — namely , an integrated workbook assignment . |
| 30 | But no members of the public have been killed this year by the security forces compared to eight last year . |