Example sentences of "[adj] year a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The following year a consignment sent by his assistant Gilbert , who had remained behind in Australia , fell , much to Gould 's dismay , into the wrong hands . |
| 32 | In the following year a Sussex doctor Gideon Mantell ( 1790–1852 ) found some large fossilized teeth in a pile of rocks intended for road-mending and noted that they resembled the teeth of the modern iguana . |
| 33 | The following year a battle between Erie and another railway , the Albany and Susquehanna , ended in a real fight between two armies of thugs . |
| 34 | In 1619 Landi brought out an opera ( see p. 311 ) and a book of five-part madrigals , and the following year a book of Arie a una voce ; four more followed during the period 1627–37 . |
| 35 | The following year a centenary festival was held in honour of the listed building . |
| 36 | In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable . |
| 37 | Just Top service : Stockton trained Edwin Taylor has been nominated the best trainee waiter in Britain the second consecutive year a trainee with the Middlesbrough based Hotel and Catering Training Company has won the award . |
| 38 | In the fourth year a number of topics of current interest are studied in detail , taking the student to the leading edge of current research . |
| 39 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 40 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
| 41 | Over a period of , say , one year a country will add up how much it has paid or still owes for goods imported from foreign countries . |
| 42 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 43 | One year a number of musical instruments were incorporated and visitors enjoyed spotting them , the numbers they found varied from fourteen to twenty-one . |
| 44 | In Osred 's first year a council was held on the banks of the River Nidd , again presided over by Archbishop Beorhtwald , at which both Aelfflaed and Berhtfrith spoke in Wilfrid 's favour ; Wilfrid was not restored to York , of which John of Beverley , bishop of Hexham , became bishop , but he was allowed to retain his former possessions of Ripon and Hexham as bishop of Hexham ( HE V , 19 : Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 45 | In that same year a circular was sent to every Nonconformist minister in England and Wales by the Rev. J. B. Paton and a committee which included Hughes , Clifford , R. F. Horton , J. Scott Lidgett , Richard Westrope and A. T. Guttery . |
| 46 | ‘ [ Subject to section 63(A) ( b ) ] where in any year a person is employed in director 's or higher-paid employment and — ( a ) by reason of his employment there is provided for him , or for others being members of his family or household , any benefit to which this section applies ; and ( b ) the cost of providing the benefit is not ( apart from this section ) chargeable to tax as his income , there is to be treated as emoluments of the employment , and accordingly chargeable to income tax under Schedule E , an amount equal to whatever is the cash equivalent of the benefit . |
| 47 | Each year a warden is employed to make sure that the inhabitants — mainly little , sandwich , arctic and common terns — are able to breed in peace . |
| 48 | that each year a psoriasis of rust is rising |
| 49 | Not one of the Hawick contingent returned from Flodden , but each year a flag is carried through the town by the ‘ Comet ’ , this time a young married man . |
| 50 | ( c ) Registration Section 8 of the 1983 Act thrusts upon various local authorities the duty to appoint a ‘ registration officer ’ whose task it is to prepare and publish each year a register of electors in his area ( ibid , s.9 ) . |
| 51 | Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram . |
| 52 | Each year a galaxy of international jazz musicians packs every concert hall , hotel , pub and street , so that a memorable foot tapping weekend is assured . |
| 53 | It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden . |
| 54 | At the beginning of each year a timetable is prepared and each year group follows a clearly defined , predetermined curriculum . |
| 55 | In the case of parish , town and community councils the Minister makes each year a block allocation of funds for capital expenditure borrowing , which is administered by the National Association of Local Councils . |
| 56 | Each year a house music competition is held and every single one of the school 's senior pupils takes part . |
| 57 | After the Education Act of 1902 the London County Council made available each year a number of scholarships for brighter boys from its own elementary schools , but the school ( like Lord Williams 's School at Thame ) remained formally independent . |
| 58 | The Bar seeks to take a positive view on law reform and we try to fulfil this requirement by considering each year a number of particular issues . |
| 59 | Then later in that year a composer already associated with the Barberini , the great monodist Luigi Rossi , was invited to Paris ; the best Italian singers were engaged , Torelli prepared expensive spectacles , and Rossi 's L'Orfeo was given before a small and highly select audience on 2 March 1647 . |
| 60 | ‘ And later that year a man and his wife |