Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 2 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 3 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 4 | you ha , it 's first time for the whole year you 've seen some of them , and so on . |
| 5 | Computer 2000 AG , Munich said its group sales rose 50% to the equivalent of $660m in the first five months of its current fiscal to September 30 : for the full year it is going for 45% growth to $1,600m . |
| 6 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 7 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 8 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 9 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 10 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 11 | In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease . |
| 12 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 13 | May I begin this afternoon by adding my thanks to those of previous speakers for all that you 've done to raise money for Save The Children during the past year you are tremendous . |
| 14 | If you have not paid Public Liability Insurance , for private classes , during the past year you will NOT be covered for this period . |
| 15 | During the coming year it was intended to undertake research designed , if possible , to show what would be the effect of any such change . |
| 16 | Through the psychedelic years he was a schoolboy in a depressed Lancashire cotton town , untouched alike by Liverpool noise and London turmoil . |
| 17 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 18 | In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill . |
| 19 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |
| 20 | We opened 23 new supermarkets and at the end of the financial year we had 328 . |
| 21 | Development Officer , Ipswich By January of the following year they were recording : |
| 22 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 23 | His great Council had been held at Michaelmas 1102 ; by April of the following year he was once more abroad expecting a speedy return , but , as we have seen , he did not return until the end of 1106 . |
| 24 | In August of the following year he travelled to East Coker , the village from which his ancestors had journeyed more than two centuries before . |
| 25 | In August of the following year he commanded another fleet bringing Louis much needed reinforcements . |
| 26 | In March 1990 Finance Minister Wang Bingqian presented details of the 1989 economic performance and the 1990 state budget to the NPC [ see p. 37373 ] , and in March of the following year he gave details of the 1990 economic performance and the 1991 budget [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 27 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 28 | Maybe at the end of the final year they could keep the money to go away with instead of spending it . |
| 29 | it it sort of keeps a sort of continuity in it and I mean I do think when we get to the end of the probationary year you 've sort of really learnt all the areas . |
| 30 | In the twilight of the old year I tried a sneak preview by dipping into an offering from Ski Alternatives steamily entitled ‘ Charlotte 's Verbier ’ . |