Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 2 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
| 3 | Unless anyone should mistake my purpose , I say clearly that , provided that local authorities , at the point of change in April 1993 , have the power to spend that which they are spending this year , plus inflation , not one meal on wheels , not one old people 's home , not one teacher — in fact not one public provision — need be cut . |
| 4 | At the reconstructed Berlin Wall where they are reconciled 34 years later , the crowd will swell to 500 . |
| 5 | So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips . |
| 6 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 7 | Back home they are celebrating 200 years but that seems nothing compared to her . |
| 8 | ‘ Hopefully we can stay in the there this time , ’ added Wood , mindful that Britain were forced into qualifying after defeat by unsung Finland meant they were relegated last year from the elite nations . |
| 9 | Never mind , also , they were wearing last year 's all yellow kit . |
| 10 | ‘ We are not trying to rip people off and planned to put a sticker on the records saying they were recorded 10 years ago . |
| 11 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 12 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 13 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 14 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | In Ciudad Sandino , a small ‘ new town ’ close to Managua , they were celebrating ten years of literacy work ( 1979–89 ) with an exhibition . |
| 16 | It was the first time the cameras had been used since they were installed last year . |
| 17 | In fact they were sold last year in the U K. |
| 18 | They were infuriated last year when East Sussex coroner Donald Gooding rejected their request to call tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraaten as a witness . |