Example sentences of "[conj] it be [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 2 | The company explains its performance by saying that 1989 was the first year that the US contributed the majority of its sales , 61% of the total , and that it was hit that year by a 35% fall in the UK because it was too reliant on one customer ; it raised £1.5m in a rights issue . |
| 3 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 4 | As part of the fund-raising effort , the Scottish Bridge Union ran a National Spring Swiss Teams and this was such a success that it was repeated this year . |
| 5 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 6 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 7 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 8 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 9 | Parreira , Gilmar , Calazans and many others maintain the championship has enormous potential if it was to run all year with matches just on Sundays , as in Italy . |
| 10 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 11 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 12 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 13 | Nonetheless , the ULFA has the support of a fair chunk of the population and , more important , is in cahoots with the Asom Gana Parishad , the regional Assamese party that ruled the state till it was sacked last year . |
| 14 | Top public sector earners such as judges , senior officials and forces top brass will get a 2.9 per cent rise but only because it was negotiated last year as part of a phased increase for 1992 . |
| 15 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 16 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 17 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 18 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 19 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 20 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 21 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 22 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 23 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 24 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 25 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 26 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 27 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 28 | They divided the territory in two , though it was reunited thirty years later . |
| 29 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ It is very plush in all areas ’ , he said , ‘ as it was refurbished three years ago . |