Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 4 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 5 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
| 6 | The Lothian proposals for assessing needs have been developed over the past year by the Lothian Assessment and Care Management Steering Group — an interagency group chaired by Lothian Social Work with representatives from Lothian Health Board ( medicine , nursing and planning ) , General Practitioners , District Council housing departments , housing associations , voluntary and private sector organisations and users ' and carers ' groups . |
| 7 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 8 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 9 | This involves accruing any receipts which have been earned in the financial year and accruing any payments which relate to purchases made in the financial year . |
| 10 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 11 | Congratulations are offered by members to the following whose names are included in the New Year 's Honours List : . |
| 12 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 13 | Some 150,000 Jews , Armenians and ethnic Germans have come to the US since 1975 , and 80,000 more are expected over the next year . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in the restless whirl of Disney expansion that is itself something akin to a rollercoaster ride , the six Euro Disney hotels , 4500 cast members , golf course and 30 separate attractions are all on schedule for the opening in April and 11 million visitors are expected in the first year alone . |
| 15 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 16 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 17 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 18 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 19 | The Judicial Statistics contain a statement of the average amount at which bills are taxed in a particular year . |
| 20 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 21 | When the accounts are prepared in the new year the publishing cost per kindred associations will be negligible . |
| 22 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 23 | As the effects of calcium chloride continue to unravel , a new concrete ‘ disease ’ has been uncovered in the past year . |
| 24 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
| 25 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 26 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 27 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 28 | As I have said before , the results of the testing will be published when all the data have been evaluated in the new year . |
| 29 | The change has been adopted as a prior year adjustment , so pre-tax profits for 1991/92 are £4.3m lower and for 1990/91 , on a restated basis , £3.8m lower . |
| 30 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |