Example sentences of "year have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 2 | A list of events for next year has already been set by organisers , planning manager Dave Sargeant , technical manager Dave Spruce and personnel officer Sue Petrulis . |
| 3 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 4 | A very large one , producing 150 000 tonnes of acetic acid per year has recently been commissioned by BP Chemicals at Hull . |
| 5 | The war fever of summer 1940 was a passing phase , which by the end of that year had again been replaced by the dominant tone of impatient longing for the end of the war . |
| 6 | Raising this much finance from conventional sources is normally difficult , but LINC claims that 20% of the businesses accepted this year have subsequently been funded by registered investors . |