Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | ( The highspot for the 600,000 fans who flock each year to the Graceland mansion shrine is the famous jungle room , where their idol used to watch three televised football games at once ) . |
2 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
3 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
4 | The walk combines a fun day out with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
5 | The sponsored walk combines a fun day out for all of the family ( especially the four-legged members ! ) with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
6 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
7 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
8 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
9 | The Protestants are scarcely measurable and the Catholics ( 3pc ) amount to only a quarter of the proportion who went 20 years ago . |
10 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
11 | ERNIE MARTIN , fund raiser for the Dawn Craggs Meningitis Appeal fund launched in memory of the Darlington 16-year-old who died six years ago . |
12 | Thomas Freemantle who died three years before Crewe was probably a Jacobite , and was at least an active high Tory . |
13 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
14 | Tetbury Hospital re-opened this week , confounding health service experts who decided 4 years ago , it should shut down . |
15 | Her portraits are largely of summer visitors , but some are of the seafarers who live all year round at Sheringham and have done so for generations . |
16 | Edvard Radzinsky — an author who spent 25 years researching the Tsar 's life — says : ‘ There is also a huge nostalgia for the monarchy . |
17 | In addition to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley 's well publicised and controversial statement that elder abuse was not a ‘ major problem ’ is the worrying view from junior health minister Tim Yeo who said last year : ‘ In a very small number of cases the carer can not cope and responds with violence . ’ |
18 | Moreover , many of the workers who spent ten years restoring the machine are now actively involved with the volunteer-run SDR or other preserved railways in the South West , so the return home is doubly welcome . |
19 | Undoubtedly , the LIBF works well as an international meeting place for publishers and suppliers who arrive each year with appointment books already filled and order books at the ready for filling . |
20 | Arable farmers who applied last year for oilseed rape subsidy will already be familiar with the way the map should be completed . |
21 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
22 | The shares rose 4 to 88p — scant reward for investors who supported last year 's rights issue at 260p . |
23 | because er he 's just one person who remembers those years . |
24 | It was a very moving and challenging address , culminating in the acknowledgement that one person who underwent many years in Communist prisons , suffering hardships in mind and body was his own father . |
25 | SEAN YATES , the Briton who won this year 's Tour of Belgium , tested positive for steroids during the race , his lawyer said yesterday . |
26 | The appeal was set up by her friend , Lady Romsey in memory of her daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
27 | The appeal was started by Prince Charles ' cousin Lord Romsey and his wife Penny in memory of their daughter Leonora Knatchbull who died last year at the age of five . |
28 | Wyatt , son of a store company heiress and a father who served six years for the manslaughter of an 18-year-old student , would never have dreamt of complaining . |
29 | I 'd like to say I 'm one of those people who waited seven years to have my daughter , who 's now eight by the way , but I mean erm I was one of those people when I heard about IV coming in I thought this was a great thing ! |
30 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |