Example sentences of "on [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore casual country tweeds and checked shirt which was unusual on Old Year 's Night . |
| 2 | The 14.20 King 's Cross to Edinburgh parcels train is stabled overnight at Newcastle Central station on New Year 's Eve 1981 . |
| 3 | The overlord Greg Dyke , having paid a minimum of £11m a year for exclusive rights to the League ( at the current rate of inflation , the four-year , index-linked bill could soar over £50m ) , hit his audience target of eight million when Manchester United beat Liverpool thrillingly on New Year 's Day . |
| 4 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 5 | One of them once issued an edict against promiscuous kissing on New Year 's Day . |
| 6 | The BBC and Ireland 's RTE will beam the Irish rock band U2 live , via stereo radio satellite , to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on New Year 's Eve as a tribute to ‘ the massive recent changes ’ in the Eastern bloc . |
| 7 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 8 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The decision to escalate the action in Surrey for 24 hours from 7am on New Year 's Eve was taken at a meeting in Redhill . |
| 11 | The letters were in response to a decision by ambulance workers to refuse all calls from controllers for 24 hours on New Year 's Eve . |
| 12 | HEALTH unions yesterday urged people to stay away from London 's Trafalgar Square celebrations on New Year 's Eve because of fears for their safety during the ambulance dispute . |
| 13 | Mike Teague will miss Gloucester 's match against Bridgend at the Brewery Field , but the Lions and England forward will turn out in the home game against Moseley on New Year 's Day . |
| 14 | Paul Goddard will make his Millwall debut — against his old club , Derby — on New Year 's Day after completing his £800,000 move yesterday following a medical . |
| 15 | Trevor Francis is still ‘ thinking over ’ an offer to join Luton and is set to make a decision on New Year 's Day . |
| 16 | GEORGE ALLEN , a football coach who died on new year 's eve , deserves a footnote in political history . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Worse , the president promised on new year 's eve to implement Islamic sharia law , which will probably aggravate his war against the non-Muslim rebels of Sudan 's south . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 21 | In Berchtesgaden , where Hitler had his home on the Obersalzberg , and where he had enjoyed special veneration in former days , the SD reported that his speech on New Year 's Eve merely elicited the response that it ‘ brought nothing new ’ , and there was ‘ hardly any credibility worth mentioning ’ left for his last broadcast speech on 30 January 1945 . |
| 22 | The girl claimed she was raped in her bedroom during Christmas 1990 and again in the man 's home on New Year 's Day 1991 while her brother slept only feet away . |
| 23 | Richard Baxter arranged a day of special prayer and fasting for her deliverance on New Year 's Eve 1659 . |
| 24 | On New Year 's Day of 1848 , friendly Nez Perce escorted him out of their lands to Fort Walla Walla . |
| 25 | The troops returned to Fort Walla Walla in September , but were recalled to the valley on New Year 's Day by reports that Joseph 's Nez Perce were murdering the settlers . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | A Publicity Committee was formed to attract more members and on New Year 's Eve 1946–47 what appears to be the first such Social at the Club was held and included ‘ modern dancing to a radiogram ’ . |
| 28 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 29 | Initially they planned a series of gigs but Mike Joyce fell ill and only a New York Danceteria date on New Year 's Eve remained . |
| 30 | The band caused a sensation on New Year 's Eve , helping to produce , by all accounts , a classic evening . |