Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 2 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 3 | By late afternoon at least 50 passengers had called off their trips on Flight 51 , while French airport police stepped up security that had already been tightened a week ago because of a feared terrorist attack . |
| 4 | ‘ They should all have been delivered a week ago , ’ Stephen commented , shrugging his shoulders and adding with a wry smile , ‘ Welcome to de West Indies , man . ’ |
| 5 | more patients than were being treated a year ago ? |
| 6 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |
| 7 | The charred and severed remains of Miss Ward , 28 , were found a year ago in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya , in an out-of-the-way spot , six miles from her abandoned vehicle . |
| 8 | Er it is important as I 've said about , we were talking a moment ago |
| 9 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 10 | From today , we are back to the business of government as usual , with a return to all the huge problems of recession , Europe , health and education where they were left a month ago when the General Election was called . |
| 11 | But that brings us back to the point we were stressing a moment ago , if the goods are faulty you 're entitled to money back , a cash refund . |
| 12 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 13 | John Moyers , 43 , of Larch Crescent , Jonathan Suttie , 25 , of Oak Crescent , and Hugh Creelie , 51 , of Carlowrie Place , all Mayfield , were convicted a year ago of causing a breach of the peace during the anti-poll tax demonstration at a house in the Midlothian village in August 1991 . |
| 14 | Yesterday sterling enjoyed its first quiet day since the trade figures were released a week ago . |
| 15 | These were launched a year ago and implemented for all new capital expenditure projects from September 1992 . |
| 16 | Fire Noise was formed a year ago ; a few jugglers and drummers got together . |
| 17 | Recruits are wanted for the Lockwood Lions jazz band which was formed a year ago . |
| 18 | With this in mind , FoE cites the Department of the Environment 's refusal to publish its report on technologies for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from power stations , which was completed a year ago , but has never been made public . |
| 19 | Chris Hani , secretary-general of the Communist Party , was assassinated a month ago . |
| 20 | Er could I just return to the line of questioning very briefly that the Senior Inspector was was pursuing a moment ago with with the County Council , in terms of the assessment of the environmental impact that the forty one thousand figure . |
| 21 | It was disclosed a week ago that the Frenchman Laurent Fignon had failed a test after a race in The Netherlands last month . |
| 22 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 23 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 24 | This material was bought a year ago for £750 but is now obsolete and would therefore only fetch a scrap price of £50 . |
| 25 | I was speaking a minute ago about Jacob and Esau . |
| 26 | According to John Hume , director of human resources for Glaxo Group Research , more than 60 mothers have opted to use the childminding initiative since it was introduced a year ago . |
| 27 | The fine , imposed by International Cricket Council match referee Raman Subba Row , is the biggest since the code of conduct was introduced a year ago . |
| 28 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 29 | When an election for the state assembly was set a year ago , after five years of direct rule from New Delhi , the militants threatened to kill voters as well as candidates . |
| 30 | She was assaulted a year ago , but was too scared to report the incident . |