Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prize list was based on last year 's results and optimism and the café stock on last year 's shopping list and guesswork . |
| 2 | A determined armchair athlete on the east coast could have spent 11 consecutive hours watching college football on new year 's day , and millions no doubt did . |
| 3 | The computer model at Britain 's Meteorological Office predicts that the fires ' effect on this year 's monsoon will probably not stand out against the monsoon 's annual variations . |
| 4 | AROW between health minister , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Surrey ambulance workers has led to crews voting to step up their action on New Year 's Eve , one of the busiest nights of the year . |
| 5 | A knee operation has exacerbated the problems he experienced with his action on last year 's England ‘ A ’ tour of Sri Lanka , yet complaints , characteristically , are few . |
| 6 | This aircraft , the world 's only surviving operational Wellington , crash-landed into Loch Ness after a sortie on New Year 's Eve 1940 . |
| 7 | This is a fall on last year 's figure of 436,973 , but a smaller drop than The Independent 's ( down to 371,411 from 410,713 ) or The Times ' ( down to 390,401 from 416,882 ) . |
| 8 | We had lunch on New Year 's day with another university colleague — a nice doctor who is a psychiatric consultant at a big hospital called the POLICLINICO . |
| 9 | Over the road , Sylvia Brackley and daughter , Karen are hard at work on this year 's crop . |
| 10 | The 1988 Social Security Act also tightened the contribution tests , making receipt of benefit conditional on two years ' consecutive employment immediately prior to claiming . |
| 11 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 12 | It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us ! |
| 13 | The band caused a sensation on New Year 's Eve , helping to produce , by all accounts , a classic evening . |
| 14 | She wrote in her journal on New Year 's Day 1922 : |
| 15 | You go over to May 's , they always have a bit of a carry-on on New Year 's Eve , and I 'll keep awake and see to Emma . ’ |
| 16 | In the first major on this year 's US women 's tour , with prize money of 700,000 ( £500,000 ) , Wright and Johnson both shot second round scores of 68 , four under-par , for a 142 total . |
| 17 | The bargain prices , available from 8pm to 8am on weekdays and all day on New Year 's Day and at weekends , are to mark Britain 's entry into the single European market . |
| 18 | The budget debate that took place in the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Eve and New Year 's Day is famous primarily for de Gaulle 's veiled resignation announcement . |
| 19 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 20 | Gallacher had a running vendetta with a famous English referee , Bert Fogg , which came to a head on New Year 's Eve 1927 . |
| 21 | The 14.20 King 's Cross to Edinburgh parcels train is stabled overnight at Newcastle Central station on New Year 's Eve 1981 . |
| 22 | The flights must be booked between today and midnight on New Year 's Day and tickets remain valid until the end of March . |
| 23 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year 's Eve . |
| 24 | At midnight on New Year 's Eve on the harbour , all the ships sound their foghorns as the Noon Day Gun booms . |
| 25 | When she was a girl , at midnight on New Year 's Eve , she could hear the steam trains ' celebratory whistle beyond the crossing down Station Road . |
| 26 | He had hoped to continue his improvement in the Morpeth- Newcastle road race on New Year 's Day , but was hit by flu . |
| 27 | Will you be able to come out for a drink on New Year 's Eve , next Tuesday evening ? ’ |
| 28 | The fifth event on this year 's Reebok Grand Prix Circuit at Doncaster turned into a personal triumph for the Ingham family from Heywood , Lancs . |
| 29 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 30 | It 's not a patch on last year 's The BFG . |