Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was formed in 1906 and planned to have 300 electrobuses on the road within a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was fined £3,500 and told to do 140 hours ' community service . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was admitted to hospital and encouraged to drink 4–5 litres of fluid daily with careful monitoring of renal function . |
| 15 | The solution was found initially using the entire Fab molecule , and confirmed using two half-molecules comprising the constant and variable regions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Surprisingly it was given an overhaul and returned to service six months later . |
| 19 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 20 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual night race cheated death yesterday after their vessel was flooded and began to sink three miles off the Isle of Man . |
| 21 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 22 | He was banned from driving for 6 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community service . |
| 23 | He was blamed for causing the death of his friend Gian-Carlo , son of director Francis Ford Coppola , in a boating accident in 1986 , and ordered to do 400 hours ' community service . |
| 24 | Birmingham City were yesterday fined £50,000 and ordered to play two games behind closed doors following the riot at St Andrews in February , though the punishment is suspended until the end of next season . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Filters were dried and exposed to XAR 2 film ( Eastman Kodak Co , Rochester , NY , USA ) with an enhancing screen at -70°C . |
| 27 | Inroads has had quality assurance systems in place for several years and decided to go one step further by introducing its new teamwork scheme . |
| 28 | One of the witnesses called today was Peter Simpson , a taxi driver who was waiting in a layby in Akers Way when he said he heard the sound of screeching tyres and looked to see two cars driving at speed , nose to tail along the road . |
| 29 | John Graf , whose form at outside-half has been a highlight , captained B.C. In the continuing absence of Norm Hadley and proceeded to score 23 points in a 38–10 result . |
| 30 | Normally he hated making speeches , and liked to prepare one week in advance so that nothing could go wrong . |