Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 3 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 4 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a new expression for YT that trainees are using this year — they 're calling it Slave Training , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 6 | In place of these grand documents are ‘ rolling programmes ’ that are revised each year , and the even more prosaic procedures of periodic adjustments in response to perceived needs and anomalies when resources become available — the classic ‘ incremental ’ approach of local government . |
| 7 | The company intends to cut about 4,500 jobs by the end of 1995 , leaving it with some 20,000 full-time employees , compared with 24,651 at the end of 1992 ; 3,500 jobs are to go this year . |
| 8 | The company intends to cut about 4,500 jobs by the end of 1995 , leaving it with some 20,000 full-time employees , compared with 24,651 at the end of 1992 ; 3,500 jobs are to go this year . |
| 9 | Basically , this means that your sums insured are adjusted each year in line with the rise in the cost of rebuilding and repairs , or of replacing your possessions . |
| 10 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 11 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 12 | About six day schools are arranged each year by the Department of Theology . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 15 | Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let . |
| 16 | In addition to the evening sessions there will be four ‘ away-days ’ on Saturdays ( from 10.00 am to 4.30 am ) , which give the opportunity for some extended skill-training and group-work ( an additional ‘ away-day ’ has been included this year ) . |
| 17 | An article in May 1992 in Waste Age , an American magazine , on landfill capacity in North America , opened with a quotation from a federal official in 1889 : ‘ Appropriate places for [ refuse ] are becoming scarcer year by year , and the question as to some other method of disposal … must soon confront us . ’ |
| 18 | The A5-A49 Telford-Shrewsbury improvements and two other bypasses are opening this year , and we are also supporting a £446 million local roads programme . |
| 19 | Various inter-school knockout tournaments are organised each year under the auspices of ESCA , including the Lord 's Taverners Cricketer Colts Trophy . |
| 20 | Conferences and seminars for researchers and practitioners are organised each year . |
| 21 | Mr Portillo denied evading the question and said the Chancellor had said that the Social Security Secretary , Peter Lilley , would take the rise in VAT on fuel into account when income-related benefits are uprated next year . |
| 22 | Forty thousand are expected next year . |
| 23 | The company estimates 27,000 RS/6000s and 14,000 Sparcservers have been installed this year , saying the total installed base for each is now around 37,000 and 28,000 respectively . |
| 24 | It might have been brewed this year , but I doubted it . |
| 25 | French forestry officials argue that only 100,000 cubic metres of timber are felled each year , but agree that roads opened up by loggers should be closed to the public . |
| 26 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 27 | Those S 2 students who survive into second year ( i.e. S' 2 ) are interviewed one year later at T 2 . |
| 28 | About 13 000 households are interviewed each year in Great Britain , the questions covering constantly varying subjects such as family composition , housing , unemployment , illness , and medical attention , long-distance journeys , educational qualifications , etc . |
| 29 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 30 | More boxes are added each year and checked periodically . |