Example sentences of "[adj] year [unc] [noun sg] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Please sell as many books of tickets as possible , more are available from the Office — RING HILDA NOW — We must raise the much needed funds to complete this year 's programme and YOU OR ONE OF YOUR CLASS MEMBERS COULD BE A LUCKY WINNER . |
2 | Guinness manager Ken Morrison said : ‘ We are delighted to be helping stage this year 's tournament and it demonstrates our commitment to hockey in Northern Ireland . ’ |
3 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
4 | The climatic conditions of Scotland and parts of Cumbria and Northumbria are particularly suitable for the production of healthy high quality seed potatoes required for the following year 's crop and it is in these areas that most of the seed potatoes are grown . |
5 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
6 | Carrie had seen the accountant 's bill for the previous year 's work and she knew why he never complained . |
7 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
8 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
9 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | As well as two years ' placement or something . |
12 | It was New Year 's Eve and he had arranged to spend it with Kate . |
13 | IT 'S New Year 's Eve and you can barely look at food , let alone spend another day preparing a mountain of it for tonight 's hungry party guests . |
14 | In the north of England they have New Year 's Day but they do n't in the south in England , they might do now . |
15 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
16 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
17 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |