Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caradon was bought from publishers Reed International for £61m in 1985 and came to the stock market in June 1987 with an initial market value of £134m . |
| 2 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 3 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 4 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 5 | She was sixteen and went to the movies with a schoolfriend . |
| 6 | This and other changes that year made an important contribution to the wave of inflation which beset the oil-consuming world for the rest of the 1970s and led to the formation of IEA towards the end of 1974 . |
| 7 | The error of 1987 that led to the 1990s depression |
| 8 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 9 | It was built about 1789 and stood to the southeast of Waterloo Bridge . |
| 10 | A.C.D. de Graaff arrived as Governor-General late in 1926 and appealed to the nationalists for cooperation while some Dutch officials endeavoured to counteract their countrymen 's reactionary spirit by forming De Stuuw ( Forward Movement ) . |
| 11 | It was a combination of pressure from the Consumers ’ Association ; the introduction of more consumer protection legislation ; the injection of national government funding and the reorganisation of local government in 1974 that led to the establishment of some 110 Consumer Advice Centres run by local authorities by the end of 1976 . |
| 12 | His energetic , though convoluted , diplomacy gave reality to ‘ containment ’ with the formation of SEATO in May 1954 ; the extension of the Brussels Treaty in 1954 to include the rearmament of West Germany and the British pledge to keep four divisions on the Continent ; and the signing of the Baghdad Pact in February 1955 that led to the formation of CENTO in 1957 . |
| 13 | Outstanding among these are 202 coloured drawings collected by John Talman in Italy between 1709 and 1717 and added to the great collection of architectural and ornament drawings amassed by himself and his father William , the Comptroller of the King 's Works . |
| 14 | Patrick Dunn was unmarried , forty four and came to the police late after a teaching career . |
| 15 | It was their divorce in 1990 that led to the estate going on the market . |
| 16 | Moved to Cornwall in 1927 and came to the notice of Stanhope Forbes … |
| 17 | Hun Sen and Sihanouk left China together on June 20 and travelled to the Prince 's residence in Pyongyang , North Korea . |
| 18 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |