Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 2 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 3 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 4 | The only disturbance to the peace of this natural sanctuary occurred 120 years ago when a spectacular railway was laid at a high level across the head of the valley ; this apart , Dentdale today is very much as it was three centuries ago , happily free from modern developments and well content to remain so . |
| 5 | Most of us , though , have learnt to beware the double handshake : hand clasped and hand on arm , all at once , It was a beguiling technique perfected 50 years ago by Adolf Hitler when he gained the chancellorship of Germany . |
| 6 | The number of cattle-stealing cases doubled , reaching 2,020 in 1938 , five times the level reported ten years earlier . |
| 7 | Though the technique employed in The Dear Deceit represents a laying-bare of traditional narrative devices without offering an alternative approach , it sets the stage for the more radical break with the conventions of realism which Brooke-Rose 's fiction demonstrated four years later . |
| 8 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 9 | The government prudently used most of its bonus to rebuild the foreign-exchange reserves ; it also restored the 10% cut made last year in public-sector salaries , and raised pensions by 5% . |
| 10 | Oxford Crown Court heard the 24 year old defendant attacked seventeen year old Ian Barnes onthe steps of Oxfordshire Social Services in Banbury in August last year . |
| 11 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 12 | An EPA contractor reported last year that the resulting blocks of concrete no longer contained PCBs , leading to speculation that the lime was reacting to neutralize the toxin . |
| 13 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 14 | More than 800 islanders died when the volcano erupted last year and 31 have been killed by mudflows since mid-August |
| 15 | The practice stopped many years ago but in many farm kitchens in the county , the hooks can still be seen . |
| 16 | His second disappointment came last year when the Bath hooker returned for the deciding group game against Berkshire . |
| 17 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 18 | As the critic noted eight years earlier , Ken , like the others , grew a little more grey , a little more lined . |
| 19 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 20 | The Queensferry side blitzed the Cobras with 16 goals in the last period to notch their highest total since the club reformed last year . |
| 21 | The same must also be said of the Pastorale d'été and the Prélude , arioso et fugue , a transcription dating from 1936 of a piano piece composed four years earlier . |
| 22 | LASMO 's second longest-serving employee celebrated 15 years with the company at an awards lunch just before Christmas . |
| 23 | Nerina 's card showed two years of B pluses and A minuses in communication studies and sociology , and then a term of Cs and Ds , and then back up to straight As . |
| 24 | As part of the £11.5 million in state aid pledged last year to Britain 's cathedrals , £5.4 million in grants for 1992–94 were announced by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on 22 March ( see The Art Newspaper No. 13 , December 1991 , p.2 ) . |
| 25 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 26 | His research began several years ago with the design of an instrument for exerting pressure on the brains of anaesthetised experimental animals , and mimicking human brain damage during injury or stroke . |
| 27 | The scheme is an adaptation of an idea that the Japan Electronic Machinery Industry Association developed three years ago to guide ambulances and rescue vehicles through cities . |
| 28 | The Iraqi president spent new year 's eve stirring stew for his soldiers in Kuwait . |
| 29 | Sally Slater , Gavin Padley , Damien Chapman , Matthew Enoch , Martin Bull , Simon Green , Robert Walsh and Ruth Goldkowski ( absent ) of Nottingham Kayak Club repeated last year 's success in the BCY marathon and won the team championships in the slalom at Cardington . |
| 30 | People forget — until one day somebody realises a farmer is paying a rent established 30 years ago , and then all hell is let loose in the sleepy meeting in the back room of the pub . |