Example sentences of "[num] and [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 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | She had had a colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for FAP in 1961 and had required 20 fulgurations for rectal polyps . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 18 | 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 . |