Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters .
2 Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case .
5 At present no other organisations have been given this status .
6 BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent .
7 No average for the country is available for comparison , but compared with other areas where similar surveys have been made this figure is regarded as a high one .
8 Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year .
9 And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year
10 In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent .
11 TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset .
12 A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing .
13 Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) .
14 The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm .
15 Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already .
16 We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year .
17 The panic which followed Mr Nigel Lawson 's departure from the Treasury has subsided , but tremors have been produced this week by tabloid press reports that Mr Nicholas Ridley , the Trade Secretary , regards Mrs Thatcher as a liability , leaving only four solid loyalists in Cabinet — Mr John Major , Mr David Waddington , Mr Cecil Parkinson and Mr Norman Lamont .
18 The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies .
19 Keegan was allowed to spend £700,000 on Lee because of the huge gates United are attracting this season .
20 The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century .
21 150 enquiries had been made this year , and potential students are now seeking funding .
22 Worldwide , over a million great whales have been killed this century for their oil and meat .
23 Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York .
24 The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels .
25 A new formative assessment for third year students has been introduced this year — namely , an integrated workbook assignment .
26 After last week 's Revenue announcement that more than £1bn had beep taken by Personal Equity Plans , two new PEPs have been launched this week by stockbrokers Credit Suisse Buckmaster & Moore and life insurance giant Norwich Union .
27 The company estimates 27,000 RS/6000s and 14,000 Sparcservers have been installed this year , saying the total installed base for each is now around 37,000 and 28,000 respectively .
28 The rules have been changed this season to give fans of Second Division sides the opportunity to see first-class opponents .
29 However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ?
30 Five of the victims have been buried this morning at their local church in Greysteel .
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