Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the [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 | No more detailed official guidance has been given in the succeeding years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | Congratulations are offered by members to the following whose names are included in the New Year 's Honours List : . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 9 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Much the same impulse had been felt in the early years of reports by the APU . |
| 14 | When the accounts are prepared in the new year the publishing cost per kindred associations will be negligible . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As the effects of calcium chloride continue to unravel , a new concrete ‘ disease ’ has been uncovered in the past year . |
| 17 | As I have said before , the results of the testing will be published when all the data have been evaluated in the new year . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Three substantive European Insurance Directives ( Accounts , Non-Life Framework and Life Framework ) have been agreed in the past year . |
| 20 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 21 | The kids are born in the next year with the coming of spring and summer , so that they can take full advantage of the brief period when food is relatively plentiful . |
| 22 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 23 | How much money has been spent in the past year on promoting the donor card , compared with that spent on the more partisan promotional material which the Government have put out on their other health policies ? |
| 24 | New signings David James and Paul Stewart have further strengthened a strong squad that has been rejuvenated in the last year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the government 's majority had been reduced in the past year from over 40 to five following defections from various coalition parties . |
| 28 | Where assets have been revalued in the financial year , the names or qualifications of the valuers and the bases of valuation should be given . |
| 29 | of those employed in its industry would be sacked in the first year . |
| 30 | Which would be formulated in the pre-election year which was for obvious reasons . |