Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] year 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year 's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses . |
| 2 | New wood means stems and branches of the current year 's growth . |
| 3 | Much of the other coursebook publishing consists of additions to series at both higher and lower levels : Nelson is publishing Signature Beginners and Synthesis Plus ( not to be confused with the already-published Synthesis Advanced , labelled ‘ new ’ in the Nelson catalogue ) ; OUP is producing Hotline Intermediate ; Longman has Blueprint Upper-Intermediate and Intermediate Choice ; Penguin is completing Making Waves with the fourth year 's work ; and CUP promises New Cambridge English Course 4 for the summer . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 's most popular loser , Frank Bruno , joins some distinguished sporting winners in the New Year 's Honours list . |
| 5 | Sir Woodrow Wyatt , chairman of the Tote , and Field Marshall Sir Edwin Bramall , the former Chief of the Defence Staff , were made life peers in the New Year 's honours list , while the principal actors in the television series Yes Minister , Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne , were made CBEs . |
| 6 | The minutes of the previous year 's meeting are read and signed and any other matters dealt with . |
| 7 | An attempt by liberal Democrat Bill Bradley to waive the rules of the previous year 's budget agreement in order to transfer 2 per cent of the defence budget to additional domestic spending was defeated by 73 votes to 22 . |
| 8 | The figure related to the costs of the previous year 's bid defence against the hostile takeover attempt by Whyte & Mackay and had to be taken above the line as a result of the FRS 3 accounting rule . |
| 9 | Schools have attempted to provide positive uses of this time by moving all classes onto the next year 's timetable , or by offering a suspension of timetables for an activities week , for example . |
| 10 | That is why the Department has written to the Northern region saying in effect , ’ We hope you will take account of our reservations in the next year 's allocations , either in the formula or in tempering the pace of change where you have yet to satisfy yourselves and us that the adjustment you propose is entirely reliable . ’ |
| 11 | On the down-side of this variety is the fact that ‘ Broken ’ does n't hang together that well as a whole package , probably because it 's essentially a compilation of unreleased tracks from the last year 's studio experiments . |
| 12 | Mr. Roberts : I can certainly confirm that there has been a considerable increase in the number of applications for section 4 assistance from 1980–81 when there were 160 applications to the current year 's forecast of 224 applications . |
| 13 | Signalling his commitment to a classless society , the prime minister bestowed peerages , knighthoods and other assorted gongs in the New Year 's Honours list . |
| 14 | The package , which represented an increase of 7 per cent in nominal terms over the previous year 's allocation [ see p. 38439 ] , was regarded as an endorsement of the government 's economic reform programme . |
| 15 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 16 | In mid-1991 labour relations deteriorated sharply with the sugarcane harvest once again delayed because of disputes over payments for the previous year 's crop . |
| 17 | Wood is pruned from a rambler as soon as it has flowered , to divert growth into strong new stems for the next year 's bloom . |
| 18 | When Wordsworth arrived at St John 's College , with which his school had strong connections , he found that he was already in advance of his fellow-students in the basic requirements for the first year 's work . |
| 19 | ‘ We had informed the ACU of our plans and were told there was no objection ’ , Ernie told me , ‘ but then we received news that Mark would not be accepted for the Superteen because he did n't have a restricted licence and he had also scored points in the previous year 's British championship . |
| 20 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 21 | Some species and types bear the best bloom on the current year 's growth , others on the previous year 's wood , yet others on short side shoots of current growth from last year 's main stems . |
| 22 | The effort of yielding a good crop of grapes expends a great amount of the vine 's energy and its roots will be active over the winter months searching out fresh supplies for the next year 's growth . |
| 23 | It will then draw up its recommendations for the coming year 's School Development Plan . |
| 24 | Obviously it had n't been planted by Marshall ; the weed was the remains of a previous year 's crop . |
| 25 | The plan to mark the silver jubilee by a co-ordinated programme of highlights of the normal year 's activities has proved to be very successful . |