Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the company had not called on shareholders for funds since 1985 and had spent recent years chasing funds to build up income producing assets . |
| 2 | Mr Goldring said Allitt had been a trainee nurse at the hospital nearing the end of her contract in early 1991 and had failed two job interviews , one at Grantham and another at Boston . |
| 3 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 4 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 5 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 6 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 7 | Hughes was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering and fined seventy-five and ordered to pay fifty pounds towards the RSPCA 's costs in bringing the case . |
| 8 | Gascoigne threw down his bib after a practice match which his team lost 3-1 and appeared to have angry words with Zoff and assistant coach Giancarlo Oddi before team manager Maurizio Manzini was called in to mediate . |
| 9 | We had successful launches of Home Purchaser in 1992 and Critical & Income Protection in 1992 and decided to repeat that format . |
| 10 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |
| 11 | Oil ministers of the 13 member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) met in Geneva on May 2-3 and agreed to cut total oil production to about 22,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in order to stabilize prices [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 12 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 13 | The nine-country Commonwealth Committee on South Africa met in London on Feb. 16 and decided to maintain all Commonwealth trade , financial and sporting sanctions pending the adoption of concrete steps by Pretoria to end apartheid . |
| 14 | Notably , this legalized republican police forces , but the central government retained control over the Interior Ministry troops used to put down serious unrest , and over the OMON ( " Special Purpose Militia Detachments " , also known as the " Black Berets " ) , the urban riot police which had been set up in 1987 and had gained international notoriety as a result of January 's armed clampdown in the Baltic republics [ see p. 37944-45 and above ] . |
| 15 | She had had a colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for FAP in 1961 and had required 20 fulgurations for rectal polyps . |
| 16 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 17 | In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks . |
| 18 | The revenue repaid the building society the moneys with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay any interest in respect of the period up to the date of judgment . |
| 19 | Peter Yeo , who had been watching his partners , realized that he and Tim were not carrying the other two and decided to make another effort . |
| 20 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 21 | He had , however , spent two years in a British prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1945-47 and had served seven years of a 10-year sentence imposed by a British military court in 1947 for lesser crimes committed in Germany . |