Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 2 | It was blown up last year . |
| 3 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 4 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 5 | It was taken down 200 years later in order to widen Cheapside . |
| 6 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 7 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 8 | One of several , it was set up 15 years ago and , using immunotherapy , has an 81 per cent success rate with women who 've had multiple miscarriages . |
| 9 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 10 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 11 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 12 | Spokesman Simon Boxer said : ‘ It was dreamed up 20 years ago when scientists believed nuclear power would save the world and feared we would soon run out of uranium . |