Example sentences of "new year ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Preserving the union ’ has become the president 's first priority : a ‘ sacred cause ’ , he called it in his new year 's message .
2 In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects .
3 WACC 's General Secretary , Rev Carlos A Valle , sends this New Year 's message to all the Association 's members and friends :
4 WACC 's General Secretary , Rev Carlos A Valle , sends this New Year 's message to all the Association 's members and friends :
5 In his New Year 's message to the Albanian people on Jan. 1 Ramiz Alia , the head of state and first secretary of the ruling Party of Labour ( APL ) , suggested that the upheavals in Eastern Europe had inspired Albania 's enemies to renew a " campaign of slanders " .
6 Because we are not doing what we should be doing , we 'll hear a little bit more about that later , another one in Matthew twenty six and verse forty one , keep on the watch and pray continually , notice our New Year 's text is all about prayer is n't it ?
7 It had a long , narrow study , a bedroom , an antechamber , and a big kitchen , and there was enough room for them to hold a private New Year 's ball .
8 The 14.20 King 's Cross to Edinburgh parcels train is stabled overnight at Newcastle Central station on New Year 's Eve 1981 .
9 Do they know about the 11th Night , New Year 's Eve , and things like that ?
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 New Year 's Eve is the busiest period of the year for emergency services , with up to 300 calls an hour .
16 I 've been reared on Christmasses and New Years that deserve the label ‘ silly season ’ , when news editors scrabble among the Christmas morning swimmers and the New Year 's Eve drink statistics to cobble up a headline , but this sudden toppling of Evil Empires and establishment of Free Democracies ( poor souls !
17 GEORGE ALLEN , a football coach who died on new year 's eve , deserves a footnote in political history .
18 The Iraqi president spent new year 's eve stirring stew for his soldiers in Kuwait .
19 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 .
20 He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him .
21 But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve .
22 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 .
23 THE smartest venues for New Year 's Eve 1999 have already been booked .
24 ‘ Dr Williams ripped a New Year 's Eve dance poster off the noticeboard , screwed it up and put it behind his back . ’
25 Richard Baxter arranged a day of special prayer and fasting for her deliverance on New Year 's Eve 1659 .
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 .
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