Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 2 | Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 . |
| 3 | He had toured New Zealand with the young 1956–57 Australian ( non-Test ) side returning there three years later , again under Ian Craig 's captaincy , and in 1961 his travels were extended with a season at Colne , in Lancashire , where he took 70 wickets at 12 and hit 706 runs at 35 . |
| 4 | Champagne Lover was backed from 16-1 to 2-1 and beat 18 rivals by 12 lengths . |
| 5 | To assist project teams , the Enterprise Centre repeated its successful workshop on project evaluation in March 1993 and issued written guidance on the preparation and structure of project reports . |
| 6 | Work on the Chiltern Line , linking London with Banbury , Bicester and Aylesbury , began in 1903 and took 3 years to complete . |
| 7 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 8 | On the same day the PFKG partially lifted the curfew imposed on Aug. 2 and urged key workers to return to their jobs . |
| 9 | Follow instructions in Diagram 2 and knit 2 rows between transfers . |
| 10 | Johnson , who caught the eye on the England A tour of the Caribbean recently , had batted 110 minutes for his 53 and hit eight boundaries . |
| 11 | She developed the disease at age 67 and died nine months later . |
| 12 | The Republic of El Salvador was ruled by Spain until 1821 and gained separate independence in 1839 , since which time the country 's history has been one of frequent coups and political violence . |
| 13 | El Salvador was ruled by Spain until 1821 and gained full independence in 1839 . |
| 14 | He was just forty-five but looked twenty years older . |
| 15 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 16 | The Jay Committee reported in 1979 and recommended that nursing staff working with the mentally handicapped should be replaced by holders of a new social work qualification , that numbers of staff should be doubled and care transferred from hospitals to homes . |
| 17 | David was starved of oxygen during birth at Peterborough Hospital in 1979 and suffered cerebral palsy . |
| 18 | Baynton left for the siege of Boulogne in 1544 and died 27 November in France or immediately after his return . |
| 19 | ‘ I loaned someone 2,000 and got 3,000 back , ’ he said , mysteriously . |
| 20 | The BCG divided its matrix into four quadrants as shown in figure 4.1 and gave each quadrant a name to signify how the products in it should be treated . |
| 21 | Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime . |
| 22 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 23 | After a public outcry Pérez met with editors on Feb. 10 and announced that censorship had been a mistake and would be lifted . |
| 24 | A former SADF intelligence major , Nico Basson , met a group of journalists in Johannesburg on June 10 and made sensational charges against the SADF , including that it had armed and trained killers loyal to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party to attack ANC supporters . |
| 25 | Glover was apprenticed to a plumber at thirteen and followed that trade for fourteen years , during which he acquired a taste for study and an interest in science . |
| 26 | He retired from the pub game in 1943 and died 11 months after his wife on April 3 , 1946 , at his home in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 27 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |
| 28 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and launched legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the Human Rights Convention which safeguards against ‘ inhuman or degrading ’ treatment and protects ‘ the right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 29 | She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and began legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights which safeguards against inhuman or degrading treatment and protects the ‘ right to respect for private and family life ’ . |
| 30 | This disendowment of a loyal servant is reminiscent of Edward 's shabby treatment of John Neville in 1470 and had similar consequences : Neville rebelled at the first real opportunity and the Howards backed Gloucester in 1483 . |