Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more detailed official guidance has been given in the succeeding years . |
| 2 | Reflecting on the parson 's fortitude in distress , his manifest care for his wife , and his humble acceptance of divine will , Agnew had felt a sense of shame that his original impulse had been clouded by the passing years . |
| 3 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 4 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 5 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 6 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 7 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
| 8 | Much the same impulse had been felt in the early years of reports by the APU . |
| 9 | Children are prepared from the earliest years to move through a tightly controlled educational system . |
| 10 | If , however , they were too pessimistic this should have been belied in the subsequent years since the Nigerian Indigenization Decree of 1972 , implemented from February 1974 , which reserved twenty-six activities in large-scale industry exclusively for Nigerian ownership ; foreign companies operating in these businesses had to sell out . |
| 11 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 12 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 13 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 14 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 15 | With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years . |
| 16 | With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years . |
| 17 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 18 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 19 | If the onset of such diseases can be delayed then morbidity will be compressed into the final years of life . |
| 20 | This will allow comparisons to be made between the two years using aggregations devised by the researcher , rather than those imposed by the Census Offices . |
| 21 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 22 | A particularly famous instance of the search for a natural religion is to be seen in the early years of the French Revolution . |
| 23 | By and large , the first three factors can be discounted for the inter-war years and it is clear that the most important factor was the decline in birth rate . |
| 24 | Some will be needed from the early years of the primary school ( e.g. letter , full stop , sentence , etc. ) ; others are not likely to be introduced before the secondary school ( e.g. presupposition , genre , creole , etc . ) . |
| 25 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 26 | Labour 's Prime Minister will go to the Earth Summit in June , with a commitment to stabilising emissions of CO&sub2 ; ( the main source of global warming ) at their 1990 levels by the end of the decade and a recognition that significant cuts will be needed in the early years of the new century . |
| 27 | It will be precisely through such products with support from national and EC funds that the effects of the region 's peripherality will be reduced over the coming years . |
| 28 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 29 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 30 | The government has paid for the restructuring of the Villahermosa Palace to house the collection ; it is guaranteeing any short-fall in the running costs after entrance fees are collected ; it is paying $6 million rent a year , index-linked , for the collection ; it has introduced an indemnity scheme to cover the works of art , and has given the Baron and Baroness the last word on how the collection is to be administered during the ten years of the loan , at the end of which the collection is handed back , with exemption from Spain 's otherwise very restrictive art export laws . |