Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school librarian , Mr Les Rae , was approached by MEP in December 1985 and asked to pilot the EDLIB Software which had been developed locally . |
| 2 | GCC Defence Ministers met in Jeddah on Aug. 22 and agreed to reinforce the Peninsular Shield Force , the organization 's Saudi-based rapid deployment force [ see p. 34265 ] . |
| 3 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 4 | The Vice-Chairman , Mr. David Blank , who as School Captain had welcomed Gilkes to the School in 1929 and had seen the changes which followed , became Acting Chairman and Mr. W.A. Kershaw Vice-Chairman . |
| 5 | Responsibility for much of the killing was attributed to remnants of the Tontons Macoutes , the widely feared militia of the Duvaliers which had remained active since 1986 and had supported the Avril regime . |
| 6 | Primitive Methodists , Baptists and Congregationalists took no public position although many of their leaders like Clifford and Parker agreed with Edward VII 's attitude in 1901–2 and favoured omitting the passages . |
| 7 | Even so , he was defeated in the City parliamentary election of 1734 and failed to make the opposition slate in 1740–1 . |
| 8 | He escaped to China in 1940 and helped found the Revolutionary League for the Independence of Vietnam ( the Viet Minh ) in the following year . |
| 9 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 10 | Greece had joined the EC in 1981 and hoped to enter the European monetary system ( EMS ) by 1995 . |
| 11 | The once dominant Lotus 72 had lost its edge ; Chapman was developing the 77 and had abandoned the 76 . |
| 12 | He had taken the name Adrian IV and had ruled the church in the twelfth century , a fact that very few people other than myself knew , but a fact I had been foolish enough to tell McIllvanney whose hatred of ‘ taigs ’ , Catholics , ensured he would never forget my papal connection . |
| 13 | He accepted an appointment with Nobel 's Explosive Company in Ayrshire in 1911 and began to examine the physical analysis of chemical plant performance . |
| 14 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 15 | In 1894 Marconi became interested in the discovery of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887–8 and resolved to recreate the original experiments . |
| 16 | EC Foreign Ministers met in The Hague on Sept. 3 and decided to hold the peace conference proposed on Aug. 27 as early as Sept. 7 . |
| 17 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 18 | If we had assumed that the expected level of prices was P 1 and had drawn the relationship between the general level of prices and aggregate output on that assumption we would have drawn the short-run aggregate supply curve as an upward-sloping line which cuts the vertical line from y n at P 1 . |
| 19 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 20 | He got to his feet at five but had to take the mandatory count of eight . |
| 21 | PCD general secretary Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio , a former Defence Minister who had left the MLSTP in 1982 and had formed the PCD as an underground organization in 1987 , was named to form an interim government pending presidential elections on March 3 . |
| 22 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 23 | During the study period six patients with pain and ultrasound scans strongly suggestive of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis were not assessed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ; each had a Karnofsky score of less than 40 and had entered the terminal phase of AIDS ( multiple unresponsive opportunistic infections , very low CD4 counts , profound weight loss ) , and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was either contraindicated on respiratory grounds or inappropriate ethically . |
| 24 | Aboard an RS250 in Samson Sharp colours , Zeelenberg won two European races in 1989 and began to attract the interest of factory bosses with his determined early grand prix . |
| 25 | The third brother , Nicholas , is described as of Marton in Craven in 1478 and had married the sister of Gloucester 's associate Sir John Pilkington . |
| 26 | The third brother , Nicholas , is described as of Marton in Craven in 1478 and had married the sister of Gloucester 's associate Sir John Pilkington . |
| 27 | Count Audebert had taken part in the rebellion of 1168 and had encouraged the revolt of the townspeople of La Souterraine in 1171 , but he had now decided to leave his native soil behind . |
| 28 | In Time Was Away he increased the number of colours used from three to four and began handling the separations with far greater elasticity and freedom . |
| 29 | But a council report claims BT then jacked up the cost to £3 million and refused to finish the job unless they were paid . |
| 30 | The corporation had assumed responsibility for the site in 1945 and had purchased the land in 1957 , although technically it was in the rural district area . |