Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1890 the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society acquired its present premises at 49 Albany Street , where the Congregational Church was also erected the same year next door . |
| 2 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 3 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 4 | St Edwards have already won the this year 's national schools championships in Nottingham , but one of that crew has had to drop out . |
| 5 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 6 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 7 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 8 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 9 | And he had the article written a few years ago about the missing Tsarist treasures . |
| 10 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 11 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 12 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 13 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 14 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 15 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 16 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 17 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 18 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 19 | I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent . |
| 20 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 21 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 22 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 23 | Coming as I did directly from higher education , I had expected to be treated as an adult and be allowed to explore my own educational needs during my three year RGN training , undertaken a few years ago . |
| 24 | When the idea of ‘ set-aside ’ was first mooted a few years ago , the hostility reached almost hysterical proportions . |
| 25 | Born the same year as Joseph Conrad [ q.v. ] , his reputation became established earlier , though his work did not retain the same general literary esteem . |
| 26 | The prison had been destroyed by fire previously , and then rebuilt in 1780 , only to be badly damaged the same year by the Gordon Riots . |
| 27 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 28 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 29 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 30 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |