Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Committee decided that the law required thorough overhauling because it was complex and failed to tackle several instances of dishonest dealing with property . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Initially , she rushed the lines and failed to realise those pauses that are so special in Russell 's comic dialogue . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We prospectively determined the prevalence and outcome of hypoxaemia in children with respiratory illness presenting to an urban referral hospital in Kenya and sought to correlate clinical signs with its presence . |
| 13 | She soon fell victim , and ceased to show any signs of life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , both sides described the talks as useful and businesslike , and agreed to hold further talks soon , at the same level . |
| 16 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 17 | A Council resolution of 7 June 1991 also emphasised separately the importance it attached to the training of arts administrators and agreed to encourage existing initiatives in this area at a European level . |
| 18 | All the signatories — who eventually numbered 64 — renounced war " as an instrument of policy " and agreed to solve all disputes by " pacific means " . |
| 19 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 20 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 21 | Yesterday Gregory , 35 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted handling stolen goods . |
| 22 | All the originals are locked to prevent accident but the elements can be ungrouped and manipulated to create new designs or , given a colour system , you can try adjusting the colours of the elements and backgrounds — often ending up with an entirely new feel . |
| 23 | The discussion of export cartels in the previous section has pointed to the possibility that competition policy might be designed and applied to protect domestic markets and to promote domestic producers in export markets . |
| 24 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 25 | Grammar explanations and practice exercises are rigorously signposted and cross-referenced to make sure students can find their way around the book . |
| 26 | Thus , when a series of Egyptian canopic jars of blue glass purporting to belong to the New Kingdom of the second millennium BC came under suspicion stylistically , they were analysed and found to contain high levels of lead and some arsenic , thereby confirming the doubts of the Egyptologists . |
| 27 | All have been inspected and found to offer high standards of cleanliness and at least an adequate range of equipment . |
| 28 | Indian survivors abandoned traditional dress to avoid summary execution and stopped using indigenous languages in public . |
| 29 | At an extraordinary session of the Diet , which opened on Oct. 30 , Prime Minister Miyazawa apologised for the scandal and promised to seek political reforms designed to reduce the influence of money within the Japanese political system . |
| 30 | 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 . |