Example sentences of "year the [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the Chancellor has been insisting that the pound can not be allowed to go any lower , because of the dangers of inflation ; and he has allowed the Bank of England to give a strong endorsement of his argument . |
| 2 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 3 | For over a year the press had been presenting Cripps as a dangerous radical , if not a republican . |
| 4 | By June of that year the water had been excluded and thereafter the new dock was constructed . |
| 5 | During the year the University has been fortunate to attract a wide range of excellent speakers to an expanded public lecture programme . |
| 6 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |
| 7 | Dale 's new owners , Sir David Guyler , Eric Dring , and Colin Speed who established the company in the early nineteen seventies it was taken over by the multinational Beaufort Group in nineteen eighty nine and by September this year the workforce had been cut from two hundred to just a hundred and ten . |
| 8 | This year the town has been plagued by teenagers burgling houses and stealing from cars , according to Chief Insp Colin Makepeace , chairman of the Cleveland branch of the Police Federation , who made the call . |
| 9 | He says that it 's the second time in a year the house has been flooded . |
| 10 | This year the surplus has been growing fast . |