Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [adj] [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 | In 1897 he obtained a post at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , and planned to enter Imperial College , London , with a studentship in 1898 , intending to become a botany teacher . |
| 3 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 4 | The Finance Minister , Adnan Kahveci said on April 12 that Turkey had spent $45,000,000 so far on relief and expected to spend another $50,000,000 to provide food for refugees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 8 | Farmers over another 22,400 hectares , would merely be given advice and asked to use less fertiliser ; there would be no money for them , and no other sanctions ( The Swells , Gloucestershire ; Bircham and Fring , Norfolk ; Sedgeford , Norfolk ; Fowlmere , Cambs ; Far Baulker , Notts ; Dotton and Colaton , Devon ; Cringle Brook , Lincs and Leics ; and Bourne Brook , Warwicks ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
| 13 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 14 | The Committee concentrated on the Scottish LFA and failed to take proper note of more severe problems elsewhere . |
| 15 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 16 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |
| 17 | Madrid was driven by its competition with the more advanced States of north-western Europe ( and shortly to be overwhelmed by the Napoleonic wars ) , and failed to draw salutary lessons from Britain 's loss of its North American colonies . |
| 18 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 19 | He can claim the return of the price he paid to Y. This claim is based upon a breach of contract by Y in that Y did not have the right to sell the goods and failed to confer any ownership upon his buyer , Z ( see paragraph 7–07 below ) . |
| 20 | You stole from the dead , and failed to deliver certain information to the King 's Justices or to the Sheriff . |
| 21 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , said in an interview in the Police Review this month that the complaints procedures had become almost unworkable , and failed to command public confidence — and particularly of ethnic minorities . |
| 22 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 23 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 24 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 25 | A Bedale businessman tried and failed to bring more freight traffic to the limestone line . |
| 26 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 27 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 28 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |
| 29 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 30 | So the transmitter made its debut in sporting terms — and failed to make much impact with the golfing fraternity . |