Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [ex0] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 2 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 3 | In this rapidly changing political landscape , at the end of January 1992 there appeared to be eight presidential candidates in addition to Ramos . |
| 4 | In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer . |
| 5 | In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media . |
| 6 | On Aug. 13 there had been a related wave of violent attacks by Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) . |
| 7 | On 18 July 1936 there had been no consensus on this question among those who joined the rebellion , beyond their unanimous desire to see the legitimate , democratically elected government removed from power . |
| 8 | In July 1990 there had been tension with Turkey as Greece contemplated extending its territorial waters from six to 12 miles . |
| 9 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |
| 10 | Since the start of the political reform process in Bulgaria in November 1989 there had been a rash of strikes in many sectors of the economy against low pay , poor working conditions and unpopular or incompetent management . |
| 11 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 12 | It has just considered the Annual Report which confirmed that between April 1991 and October 1992 there had been an increase of 10% in the number of single rooms in Adult Residential Homes throughout Lothian . |
| 13 | Federal police reported that in January-March 1992 there had been nearly 600 " criminal acts hostile to foreigners " , representing a fourfold increase as compared with the same period in 1991 . |
| 14 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 15 | In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering . |
| 16 | In two issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ newspaper on 17 and 24 September 1989 there appeared articles concerning share deals involving the superannuation fund of the Derbyshire County Council . |
| 17 | In April 1875 there appeared an anonymous book , The Unseen Universe , which turned out to be written by two eminent physicists , Peter Guthrie Tait of Edinburgh and Balfour Stewart of Manchester . |
| 18 | In April 2 there had been a clash between the security forces and civilians in the Bassatine suburb of southern Cairo after the security forces had intervened to prevent the distribution of tracts hostile to the regime . |
| 19 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 20 | On June 21 there had been reports that 200 Miskito Indians out of the estimated 2,000 belonging to the Yatama resistance movement had disbanded on the Atlantic coast . |
| 21 | The only seat won by the nationalist Fatherland Party of Labour was won by the party 's leader Dimitar Arnaudov in the town of Kurdjali , where according to the Guardian of June 18 there had been an " ugly backlash against the restoration of the rights of Bulgaria 's ethnic Turkish minority " earlier in 1990 . |
| 22 | Local elections held on May 27 were Poland 's first completely free multiparty elections since before the Second World War ( in the parliamentary elections of June 1989 there had been an agreed distribution of seats in the Sejm ( the lower house of the National Assembly ) among the former ruling parties and opposition or independent candidates — see pp. 36722-24 , and some opposition groups had been denied registration to compete as parties ) . |