Example sentences of "[prep] 1989 [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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1 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
2 | In a reasonably good year like 1989 it was between 12 and 13 times greater , fortunately , perhaps , since the Soviet Union was obliged to purchase 40 million tonnes of grain from abroad . |
3 | During 15 years with EMI he worked in artist development , marketing , promotion and public relations , and on leaving the company in 1989 he was the director of public relations and communications , EMI Music Worldwide . |
4 | In 1989 he was obliged to move out of his house to live on the farm in order to avoid the pressure to entertain visiting dignitaries on behalf of local politicians . |
5 | In 1989 he was tipped to succeed Mr King when Mr Brooke was appointed , and despite his disappointment then has continued to covet the job and interest himself in Irish affairs . |
6 | In 1989 he was presented with the Institute 's own International Award for his contribution to the international development of accountancy . |
7 | Gorbachev was Man of the Year for Time magazine in 1987 and for Der Spiegel in 1988 ; in 1989 he was ‘ statesman of the decade ’ for independent television in Britain ; in 1990 he was Man of the Year in France and received the Nobel Peace Prize . |
8 | In 1989 he was appointed assistant Group accountant and in 1990 became Group accountant . |
9 | In 1989 he was sacked as steward of Haughton Working Men 's Club , Darlington , over his organising of Red Nose Day activities . |
10 | In 1989 he was visiting fellow of Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and in 1992 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters at Cambridge fro work in modern and medieval German and Celtic studies . |
11 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
12 | In 1989 I was invited to become a member of Academia Europaea ( European Academy ) . |
13 | In 1989 it was planned that doctors would have to work to new contracts , under which their pay would be more clearly related to the number of patients . |
14 | When Britain 's water companies went private in 1989 it was predicted that the cost of improving water services would be £28 billion over a decade . |
15 | In 1989 it was the first British company to take a significant stake in the French commercial radio network . |
16 | In 1989 it was the first British company to take a significant stake in French commercial radio . |
17 | In 1989 it was planned to reduce the deficit to 13 per cent of total budgetary expenditure ( at an unspecified exchange rate ) with the assistance of the Central Bank , which would call in loans and foreign donations . |
18 | In 1989 it was revealed that he had engaged in a homosexual relationship with Steven Gobie , whom he also hired as a personal aide and driver in 1985 . |
19 | In 1989 it was reported that landowners were under pressure not to renew leases to the largely Indian cane farmers . |
20 | After the Marchioness river boat sank in the Thames in 1989 it was revealed that the ship that crashed into it — the Bowbelle — had been involved in three previous river accidents . |
21 | In 1989 she was accused of writing ‘ reactionary songs ’ during class and urging her pupils to read them . |
22 | In 1989 she was elected Foreign Member ofthe Royal Swedish Academy of Science . |
23 | Until 1989 he was director of European affairs at the environmental and energy policy centre of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , and until 1990 a broadcaster on the BBC and commercial radio , a company director and public affairs advisor . |
24 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
25 | ‘ But by 1989 I was at the crossroads , ’ he says . |
26 | If anything , public expenditure has grown less quickly in the UK ; in 1964 it was joint third highest , with Germany , of the fourteen countries shown in Table 15.3 ; by 1989 it was only eleventh highest of those same fourteen countries . |