Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1983 , the EPA had already either approved or proposed to approve 150 bubbles , with a saving to industry of $500 million . |
| 2 | Research shows that a large percentage of known deserted settlements in England and Wales were deserted or began to decline 600–700 years ago . |
| 3 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 4 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 5 | I belong to the Community Oxford Health Authority not to the Family Health Services Authority , so that 's just to clarify that , that did cover two questions that I was asked . |
| 6 | East Smithfield , Nightingale Lane , Burr Street , St Catherine 's Way ; like London 's wall they hemmed in the huge dock area that had seen 11,000 people moved from the crowded houses and thieve 's kitchens , and vast amounts of earth shifted to create new hills and rises in Chelsea and Pimlico . |
| 7 | To examine this thesis , the crypt cell production rate ( CCPR ) was measured in eight groups of rats ( n=187 ) that had received 1,2 dimethylhydrazine , 70% small bowel resection , supplemental dietary calcium , or a combination of these . |
| 8 | All subjects then received A-shock pairings followed by a test session assessing the generalization of conditioned suppression to both B and C. Suppression on this test was not profound but , as Fig 5.7 shows , each group showed more suppression to the stimulus that had received stage-one training equivalent to that given for A. |
| 9 | Finally , on 15th June 1094 , the city gave itself up totally to Rodrigo after a siege that had lasted nineteen months . |
| 10 | Peter had won a south-east regional first novel award in 1976 for a book that had sold 2186 copies before being remaindered . |
| 11 | It had been an horrific triple crash that had left two drivers dead , and the newsreel of that dreadful moment had shown a blazing object being catapulted clear of the wreckage . |
| 12 | It was a different Wedding Present to the one that had toured two years earlier . |
| 13 | Water that had started ten miles away at the far end of the moor and then fallen fifteen hundred feet overall . |
| 14 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | Five music schools will be contacted and asked to nominate one candidate each who will then be asked to play a short piece to be judged at the festival . |
| 18 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 19 | WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo . |
| 20 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 21 | In northern Queensland , their dung heaps ( up to 1 kg each ! ) were examined and found to contain 78 species of seeds , of which 70 were viable . |
| 22 | It was not until March 1950 that the British ceased to rank the Middle East equally with Europe , and promised to send two divisions to the continent in the event of war . |
| 23 | He was fined £3,500 and told to do 140 hours ' community service . |
| 24 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 25 | The aircraft crossed the overrun , rolled down an embankment for an additional 250 feet into Mountain Creek Lake and came to rest fifty feet off shore . |
| 26 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 27 | He was admitted to hospital and encouraged to drink 4–5 litres of fluid daily with careful monitoring of renal function . |
| 28 | The solution was found initially using the entire Fab molecule , and confirmed using two half-molecules comprising the constant and variable regions . |
| 29 | Allen , the Hal Far station commander , reported seeing Deacon 's combat and confirmed observing one Messerschmitt crash into the sea ; Deacon was subsequently credited with one destroyed as a result . |
| 30 | On Aug. 31 the UN announced another 79,200 tonnes of food for Somalia , worth US$26,000,000 and reckoned to last three months . |