Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 3 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 4 | In place of these grand documents are ‘ rolling programmes ’ that are revised each year , and the even more prosaic procedures of periodic adjustments in response to perceived needs and anomalies when resources become available — the classic ‘ incremental ’ approach of local government . |
| 5 | Basically , this means that your sums insured are adjusted each year in line with the rise in the cost of rebuilding and repairs , or of replacing your possessions . |
| 6 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 7 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 8 | About six day schools are arranged each year by the Department of Theology . |
| 9 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 10 | Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let . |
| 11 | In addition to the evening sessions there will be four ‘ away-days ’ on Saturdays ( from 10.00 am to 4.30 am ) , which give the opportunity for some extended skill-training and group-work ( an additional ‘ away-day ’ has been included this year ) . |
| 12 | Various inter-school knockout tournaments are organised each year under the auspices of ESCA , including the Lord 's Taverners Cricketer Colts Trophy . |
| 13 | Conferences and seminars for researchers and practitioners are organised each year . |
| 14 | Mr Portillo denied evading the question and said the Chancellor had said that the Social Security Secretary , Peter Lilley , would take the rise in VAT on fuel into account when income-related benefits are uprated next year . |
| 15 | Forty thousand are expected next year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 18 | French forestry officials argue that only 100,000 cubic metres of timber are felled each year , but agree that roads opened up by loggers should be closed to the public . |
| 19 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 20 | Those S 2 students who survive into second year ( i.e. S' 2 ) are interviewed one year later at T 2 . |
| 21 | About 13 000 households are interviewed each year in Great Britain , the questions covering constantly varying subjects such as family composition , housing , unemployment , illness , and medical attention , long-distance journeys , educational qualifications , etc . |
| 22 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 23 | More boxes are added each year and checked periodically . |
| 24 | WHEN HANDPUMPS are installed this year in villages in Malawi , Pakistan and the Philippines , thousands of people will have their first chance of leading a healthy life . |
| 25 | The flower beds are replanted each year and many of the shrubs and trees , including old varities of apple , remain from the original kitchen garden . |
| 26 | It would be absolutely disastrous if after the excellent work that 's been done this year we were not able to maintain that . |
| 27 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Open access to all this vast capacity for generation of information creates its own demands : in the US alone 18 million filing cabinets are manufactured each year to hold the paper output . |
| 30 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |