Example sentences of "in 1988 the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 the Poll Tax debate drew 501 votes . |
| 2 | In 1988 the society decided not to follow its rival , Abbey National , and abandon its mutually-owned status for that of a public company . |
| 3 | In 1988 the turnout was 50% . |
| 4 | However , in 1988 the responsibility for the employment of disabled people was returned to the Department of Employment , whilst schemes such as TOPs no longer exist . |
| 5 | In 1988 the celebration meeting was numbering around 2000 people and facilities at the school at which the meeting was taking place were being stretched . |
| 6 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 7 | In 1988 the committee came up with reasonably simple minimum standards ( adopted or exceeded by banks in most developed countries by the end of last year ) which sought to match a bank 's capital to the credit risks it runs . |
| 8 | In 1988 the cruise ship Jupiter sank off the coast of Athens , with a party of schoolchildren aboard . |
| 9 | He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife . |
| 10 | In 1988 the government established a scheme of Income Support and a Social Fund to replace Supplementary Benefits . |
| 11 | In 1988 the Government 's Hazardous Waste Inspectorate brought to light the fact that , out of 35 landfill sites licensed to receive hazardous waste , only three had laboratory facilities where incoming waste could be analysed . |
| 12 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 13 | In 1988 the museum , built by Gottfried Semper in 1845–46 to house the extraordinarily rich collections of Augustus the Strong and his picture-obsessed son Friedrich August III , was closed for major renovation work . |
| 14 | In 1988 The Guardian reported the case of a couple who had bought a mid-terrace cottage in Wales for £16,500 — but on the day they should have moved in , builders were tearing the place to pieces . |
| 15 | In 1988 the head of MI6 , known as ‘ C ’ , was Sir Christopher Curwen . |
| 16 | On two days out of three in 1988 the air exceeded national health standards . |
| 17 | In a letter to regional advisers and postgraduate deans in 1988 the chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training stated that trainees aged 35 or over and without the requisite ‘ papers ’ should be told they are unlikely to succeed in finding a senior registrar post . |
| 18 | In 1988 the supervision order was quashed and she went to live permanently with her mother . |
| 19 | For example , in 1988 the Secretary of State for Wales , Peter Walker , announced a £500 million revitalization programme for the valleys of South Wales , which would involve land reclamation , business advice and support , factory construction , housing rehabilitation and infrastructural investment , and which would be implemented by local authorities , the private sector , central government and the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 20 | In 1988 the Secretary of State for the Environment suggested that people were becoming homeless simply to jump the housing waiting list queue . |
| 21 | In 1988 the range of modules included two-term doubles , one-term doubles ( used for school experience on the BEd ) , two-term singles , three-term singles ( used in music performance modules ) and three-term doubles ( used in languages ) . |
| 22 | In 1988 the money ran out because of ‘ inefficiency ’ and ‘ bad management , ’ prompting the NHS review . |
| 23 | In 1988 the salary reached £22,548 and in future it will be linked to civil service pay , being 89 per cent of the salary of a Principal . |
| 24 | Finally , in some frustration , in 1988 the rating system was abolished for England and Wales and a community charge introduced , to take effect in 1990 — 1 ( introduced a year earlier in Scotland ) . |
| 25 | In 1988 the Crown Prince had been allowed to move to London , with his wife and six grown-up children , for medical treatment . |
| 26 | ‘ Each year seems to bring a new craze , anything but study ’ , he continued , as I was told of the ‘ talking about reform ’ craze in 1985 , before the student unrest ; that of democracy in 1986 ; falling in love in 1987 ; and in 1988 the preoccupation with ‘ doing business ’ . |
| 27 | In 1988 the plaintiff applied for a charging order on the defendant 's house in respect of damages , interest and costs . |
| 28 | In 1988 the plaintiff commenced an action for damages on the ground of negligence against the defendant health authority . |
| 29 | In 1988 the District Council , responsible for maintainance of pathways , had said that improvements could be made if ‘ Spokes ’ , the Lothians cycle campaign , would supply voluntary labour . |
| 30 | In 1988 the plant was scheduled to produce 992 cars a day . |