Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 2 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 3 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 4 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 5 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 6 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 7 | John Tugwell , a rival to Wanless in the race to succeed Frost , wins diplomatic praise from his new boss for the way he has restored Bancorp to profit this year . |
| 8 | Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification . |
| 9 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
| 10 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 11 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 12 | If you want to ski this year without breaking the bank , there are plenty of ways you can trim costs without slumming it . |
| 13 | Even so , the flow of new money into eastern Germany is expected to grow this year ( see box on previous page ) . |
| 14 | FIRED by a 20 per cent surge in oil production , the Scottish economy is expected to grow this year by more than three times the UK average , according to a survey published today by the Stirling-based Mackay Consultants . |
| 15 | Lloyd 's is expected to announce this year losses for 1989 of between £1 billion and £1.6 billion though some market men fear the loss could rise to £2 billion . |
| 16 | A fridge would need to last 15 years , and an iron for 12 . |
| 17 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 18 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 19 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 20 | This enabled the eldership to start thinking about what we want to do next year to grow together . |
| 21 | The Foreign Secretary had told the Commons that 42,000 people left the colony this year , and 55,000 are expected to leave next year . |
| 22 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 23 | Britain 's biggest teaching union , the NUT , has voted to boycott this year 's new curriculum schools tests . |
| 24 | Lord Alexander says now that the Development Plans were never taken seriously , that it was then thought ‘ a nonsense ’ to try to project five years ahead . |
| 25 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 26 | In the afternoon there will be an open discussion on the theme which we want to adopt next year . |
| 27 | You will see that some topics/themes are still open , and we want to repeat last year 's idea of negotiating these with you . |
| 28 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 29 | We , we now think it 's appropriate to strike a medium balance , therefore we 'll get the de-loan stock interest up to ninety three , we 'll take in , in this year , which we expect to get next year . |
| 30 | Earlier this month the marine geologists at the survey 's western headquarters in Menlo Park , California , revealed what they discovered during a nine-month cruise last year and what they want to reexamine this year . |