Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 2 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 3 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the new operators , who 're all local businessmen , have been given 5 years on a new lease to make it a success . |
| 6 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 7 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 8 | But no members of the public have been killed this year by the security forces compared to eight last year . |
| 9 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 10 | TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset . |
| 11 | The report says applications to mine at 652 new sites in England and Wales have been made this year . |
| 12 | More than 7,000 rail jobs have been lost this year and 20,000 are under threat , according to the union , which last organised a series of one-day strikes , over pay , in 1989 . |
| 13 | Since 1947 Spoonbills have been recorded each year , except in 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1969 , 1973 , and 1976 , and there were records involving 82 birds . |
| 14 | Considerable quantities of Ecstasy and LSD have been seized this year from buses and cars along the Derry-Donegal border . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 17 | Most at risk are shrubs that have been planted this year , and are not yet fully established . |
| 18 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 19 | Had the supplements still been in existence , they would , of course , have been reviewed each year . |
| 20 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 23 | My ma and da have been divorced ten years . |
| 24 | The three members who have been chosen this year are Ron Waldron and John Ryan , two former national coaches , and John Maclean , one of the union 's national representatives who is also chairman of Llanelli . |