Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 2 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About six day schools are arranged each year by the Department of Theology . |
| 6 | Various inter-school knockout tournaments are organised each year under the auspices of ESCA , including the Lord 's Taverners Cricketer Colts Trophy . |
| 7 | Conferences and seminars for researchers and practitioners are organised each year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Forty thousand are expected next year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Those S 2 students who survive into second year ( i.e. S' 2 ) are interviewed one year later at T 2 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | More boxes are added each year and checked periodically . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | An article in the weekly Die Zeit urging a more liberal citizenship law said only about 1,000 of the 1.8 million Turks in Germany are naturalised each year under complicated rules . |
| 19 | In Cali , about 25,000 tons of waste paper are collected each year , of which the garbage pickers contribute some 15,000 tons . |
| 20 | About 16 000 000 visits are made each year by town and city folk who come to use the same landscape . |
| 21 | Today , 2.5 million magnetrons are made each year for the microwave oven market . |
| 22 | Only a handful of such grants are made each year , and Woodchester Mansion 's success is all the more remarkable because the building was only ever half-finished |
| 23 | This can , however , be largely avoided by insisting that his ROI targets are reset each year in the knowledge of assets held and investments to be undertaken during the year . |
| 24 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 25 | ‘ Several thousand cases are sold each year , ’ says an Invergordon spokesman , ‘ but most of the sales are in Britain . |
| 26 | About how many extra houses are needed each year for this natural increase of people , assuming 3 people per house ? |
| 27 | The most serious incidental catch is in the coastal net fisheries around Sri Lanka , where an unknown number , probably in the thousands , are drowned each year . |
| 28 | If findings from Liverpool are representative of the rest of Britain then many unnecessary circumcisions are performed each year at considerable cost to the health service and morbidity for the patients . |
| 29 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |
| 30 | Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources . |