Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 2 | In 1935 Humphrys left the public service and embarked on a career in the City . |
| 3 | In an address to foreign ambassadors at the end of 1985 Gorbachev underlined the Soviet readiness to search for ‘ just solutions jointly with other countries ’ to conflicts in various regions and ‘ to participate where necessary , in respective guarantees ’ . |
| 4 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | The Foreign Affairs Committee statement on 2 December gave the initial response from the European Community . |
| 6 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 7 | And when Red Square echoed and re-echoed to the boom of a 21-gun salute as 800 bandsmen played the national anthem , the ghosts of the Tsars in the Kremlin could have recognised the Russia they lost . |
| 8 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 9 | More than 300 demonstrators attacked the Chinese embassy in Dhaka on July 2 after rumours that human skulls had been found in the embassy . |
| 10 | Around 140 members attended the Annual Dinner for Chairmen and Chief Executives hosted by the Council 's London Committee and held in March 1990 in the Caledonian Club . |
| 11 | During 1787 and 1788 Ainslie devoted the greatest part of his time to preparing his great map of Scotland . |
| 12 | On May 22 Liechtenstein became the seventh member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) joining Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland ; hitherto Liechtenstein had had associate status through its customs union with Switzerland , but no vote . |
| 13 | More than 16,500 students sat the Young Enterprise Europe examination . |
| 14 | The Labour Party was concerned at the threat which fascism posed to its traditional areas of support but the results of its 1934 circular emphasized the limited nature of British fascism . |
| 15 | Between 1885 and 1905 over 830,000 Germans left the Prussian east . |
| 16 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 17 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
| 18 | In his message to the Havana Non-Aligned Summit in 1979 Brezhnev stressed the Soviet opposition to ‘ the division of the world into military-political blocs opposed to each other ’ . |
| 19 | In 1963 Hill defined the representative volume element ( RVE ) in a consideration of general properties of composite materials . |
| 20 | On May 7 Brizan accused the previous administration of mismanagement of the country 's finances , increasing the island 's debt and budget deficit as spending had exceeded targets . |
| 21 | Groups of 10–12 rats received the following drug treatments : ( i ) 5 mg/kg or 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A intragastrically once daily ; ( ii ) 2 mg/kg indomethacin subcutaneously twice daily ; ( iii ) 2 mg/ kg indomethacin subcutaneously twice daily in addition to 5 or 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A intragastrically once daily . |
| 22 | On Monday 30 September 1991 troops overthrew the elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , who had taken office on 7 February 1991 . |
| 23 | More than 2,000 delegates attended the 14th World Congress of Accountants held in Washington DC last month . |
| 24 | The German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl said on Oct. 6 that Gorbachev 's offer was of " special importance " for Europe , while on Oct. 7 China welcomed the Soviet initiative . |
| 25 | About 320 people attended the Congregational Tea and the scheme was officially launched . |
| 26 | In July 1991 AI took the unprecedented step of urging the United Nations ( UN ) to establish an international on-site human rights monitoring operation in Iraq to prevent torture , killings and other abuses by government forces . |
| 27 | Between 1973 and 1979 Yugoslavia covered the extra cost of oil and the fall in the relative importance of remittances by letting the current account go into deficit . |
| 28 | Several of his staff had been injured in clashes with ‘ justly indignant ’ citizens and in Dresden 100 people stormed the local office of the security police on Monday night . |
| 29 | The 46/47 season saw the forced retirement of Ken Mentle after he was struck on the knee by a lettuce thrown from a nearby allotment . |
| 30 | In 1929 Marks left the Liberal Party and offered his support to Ramsay MacDonald . |