Example sentences of "this year [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 2 | The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ? |
| 3 | Not to be outdone by the Rossinians and the Mozartians , or the Vienna and New York Philharmonics , Houston this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary not of a birth or death or a founding , but of a hiring , that of David Gockley as General Director of the Houston Grand Opera . |
| 4 | But Roger Kirby , a Consultant Urologist at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , is one of a group of urologists who earlier this year formed the British Prostate Group in an attempt to persuade the DoH to fund such a study . |
| 5 | With sales of unleaded now well ahead of those of leaded and set to surge even higher after the Budget , the survival of relatively cheap unleaded petrol is assured only as long as the Autumn Statement which from this year replaces the traditional spring Budget . |
| 6 | Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost . |
| 7 | The girl who this year became the youngest Wightman Cup player in history is technically not allowed to join the professional tour until she is 14 , in March . |
| 8 | The Royal British Legion have again requested support for their appeal which this year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El-Alamein . |
| 9 | Writer Jilly Cooper , who this year launched the Good Life premium plus dog food , says . |
| 10 | The pace quickened , this year seeing the long-awaited introduction of the Thameslink service , the extension of electrification from Bournemouth to Weymouth and the delivery ( albeit late ) of Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ units to give air-conditioned comfort to NSE passengers . |
| 11 | This year to mark the 10th anniversary , a call is made to all anti racists and anti fascists to join us in a March through Southall . |
| 12 | A GREAT deal was expected of Jonny Kane when he moved to England earlier this year to join the Swift team in the British Formula Ford championship . |
| 13 | THIS year marks the 80th anniversary of Catholic education at Harrytown School , Romiley , Stockport . |
| 14 | This year marks the Third Biennial . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend agree to visit Basildon this year to observe the excellent education standards enjoyed by my constituents ? |
| 16 | This year marked the tenth anniversary of THE FACE , but whereas parties have been thrown to commemorate this occasion , nobody has bothered to hold a ‘ do ’ for the tenth anniversary of the training shoe . |
| 17 | THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of the launch of HMS Khedive , an assault fighter aircraft carrier which operated with distinction in the South of France landings and in the Aegean Sea , and later against the Japanese . |