Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In colonial Ruanda-Burundi , several weeks of free labour had to be given each year by the commune to build up terraces , bunds and other erosion works . |
| 2 | Once the basic wage was agreed , increments would be given each year up to the age of 40 and additional payments made for each family member with a 25 per cent component left for job performance . |
| 3 | Directors are to be given 1 year service agreements with ABC . |
| 4 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 5 | It was originally thought the contract could be given last year with work starting in late autumn . |
| 6 | A formal creditors ' meeting was held in August where it was agreed that Hook Harris would be given three years to pay back its debts under the supervision of Andersen partners John Talbot and Martin Fishman . |
| 7 | All EC states would be given three years to introduce the necessary legislation except for the UK , which had strongly opposed the proposal and was given 10 years to implement it [ see also p. 38658 for UK option to withdraw from social policy aspects of European Union ] . |
| 8 | Unison will be formed next year if it gets similar backing from unions Cohse and Nalgo , and a secret ballot of the members of all three in November . |
| 9 | Alcatel Cable SA reports that a consortium led by its Alcatel Submarcom venture , in which AT&T Co and Pirelli SpA are the other members , has signed a $53m contract to install a submarine cable between Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay : the team will run 1,071 miles of optical fibre cable in two pairs from Florianpolis in Brazil to Las Tolinas in Argentina and Maldonado in Uruguay to create the Unisur system , which will have capacity of 560Mbps and will link South America to the global optical fibre network via the existing Americas I and Colombus II systems ; the new system is due to be completed next year . |
| 10 | aware that erm the retention of this site is essential for expansion , since the British Library after forty years in construction has room for , will have room only for twelve hundred readers not many more than Great Russell Street while the French National Library which has taken only five years to build and will be completed next year , will have room for three-and-a-half-thousand readers . |
| 11 | Senior East German Social Democrats believe that even the slower process under Article 146 could be completed this year . |
| 12 | Although the resolution authorized a governing body established in Geneva , consisting of all 15 members of the Security Council , to decide how much would be paid into the Fund annually , the United States had reportedly pressed for between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of Iraqi oil revenues to be diverted each year . |
| 13 | But the Manx courts have now agreed that copies may be made available to defendants in a criminal case to be heard next year against eight people involved in the Savings&Investment collapse . |
| 14 | In 1990 , ICI , the Belgian company Solvay and others were fined Ecu17m on soda ash ; an appeal is expected to be heard next year . |
| 15 | THE Soviet Union accepts in principle confederation between East and West Germany , and expects that this key move towards German reunification will be ratified next year at the summit meeting of the 35 signatories of the Helsinki Declaration . |
| 16 | THE Soviet Union accepts in principle confederation between East and West Germany , and expects that this key move towards German reunification will be ratified next year at the summit meeting of the 35 signatories of the Helsinki Declaration . |
| 17 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 18 | Although joking apart I urge members to support this on principle , I think we should put this in and then it will have to be considered next year , how , where the money will , will come from , and I think that we should establish it that married women with dependant children will get some allowance to help them to stand and represent their communities . |
| 19 | Subject to the overall success of this exploratory stage , it is hoped that an expanded scheme can be considered this year . |
| 20 | Speaking at the opening of a new headquarters for the state arms-manufacturing corporation , Armscor , he said other cuts in the military establishment would be disclosed next year . |
| 21 | Speaking at the opening of a new headquarters for the state arms-manufacturing corporation , Armscor , he said other cuts in the military establishment would be disclosed next year . |
| 22 | It 's been predicted that the number of places on courses is likely to be frozen this year . |
| 23 | Mr Brian Allen , assistant director of finance at Sedgefield council , said : ‘ The budget will be frozen this year in order to avoid being capped . |
| 24 | ‘ This is to be welcomed , since continental European markets may be subdued this year , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Now consider T 5 ; the 252 robins that die aged 5 live a total of 252÷2 robin-years , to which must be added one year of life for each of the 63 birds that survive at least another year plus their total life beyond their next birthday ( i.e. T 6 ) . |
| 26 | The software runs on Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC and Hewlett-Packard Co platforms and support for IBM 's RS/6000s will be added next year . |
| 27 | It 's available immediately for Sun boxes under Open Look and Motif , and Sun , IBM , HP and personal computer Unix platforms will be added next year . |
| 28 | XP338P supports a variety of host machines including Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations , Digital Equipment Corp 's Ultrix Unix boxes and VAXes — support for DEC 's Alpha OSF/1-based AXP systems will be added next year — and IBM Corp 's RS/6000s . |
| 29 | Unix , OS/2 , OSF/Motif , Informix , Teradata , SQL/DS and SQL/400 support will be added this year . |
| 30 | Unix , OS/2 , OSF/Motif , Informix , Teradata , SQL/DS and SQL/400 support will be added this year . |