Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gallup in September 1980 asked voters to indicate which of various descriptions best suited the two candidates and Reagan was placed well ahead of Carter on several leadership questions : ‘ Has strong leadership qualities ’ , 65 per cent — 31 per cent ; ‘ Decisive sure of himself , 69 per cent — 37 per cent ; ‘ Has a well defined progam for moving the country ahead ’ , 53 per cent — 27 per cent ; ‘ You know where he stands on the issues ’ , 54 per cent — 33 per cent . |
| 2 | In the control group there were 14 people still at home at one year , but only eight lived alone and only four did so without closely involved relatives . |
| 3 | Ten people lived on ordinary wards at the beginning of the study , and eight lived in special units reserved for those with the most challenging behaviour . |
| 4 | Date : Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET |
| 5 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 6 | As expected Object World ‘ 92 got off to a dramatic and bitchy start with the opening panel session which , on the day , featured Paul Allchin , Microsoft Corp 's vice president for advanced products , Philippe Kahn , founder of Borland International Inc , Steve McKay , SunSoft Inc vice president for user environment software and Joe Guglielmi , head of Taligent Inc as the great and glorious warm-up act for NeXT Inc 's Steve Jobs who topped the bill . |
| 7 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 8 | The privilege from self-incrimination is abrogated in bankruptcy proceedings not by the opening words of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , but by rule 6.175 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 made pursuant to section 412 of the Act of 1986 : |
| 9 | Date : Mon , 13 Dec 93 11:55:26 MET |
| 10 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 11 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 12 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 13 | When Lord Hawke in 1925 made his famous remark about the undesirability of a professional ever captaining England , Fender responded in the socialist Daily Herald by calling his lordship 's comments ‘ a gratuitous insult ’ to professional cricketers . |
| 14 | In Oxford , out of 312 boys , 119 became errand lads , while 110 girls out of 223 became domestic servants . |
| 15 | A graduate of Manchester University , he trained as a teacher of the deaf , and in 1935 succeeded his father as missioner in the Carlisle diocese . |
| 16 | The rise to power of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 led to a revival of the Iraqi claim to the islands . |
| 17 | Royalty paid by Atkinson & Hall during the years 1759–66 amounted to £403 : 15s . |
| 18 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 19 | Youngsters from 14–17 got an exclusive insight into the repertoire of a military band as players demonstrated everything from trumpet fanfares to dance music . |
| 20 | A meeting of the central committee of the Communist Party ( PCF ) on Sept. 3-5 failed to dislodge Georges Marchais , 71 , the veteran general secretary ( since 1972 ) , and approved on Sept. 5 a report presented by André Lajoinie , the president of the PCF group inthe National Assembly , rejecting all criticisms from the reformist wing . |
| 21 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 22 | But the Brazilian debt crisis in December 1986 led to a collapse in the perpetual FRN market . |
| 23 | His obsession with the social history of the Twenties and Thirties led him to Wilsford Manor , Tennant 's home , in 1986 , where he wooed the eremitic inhabitant with chocolates and orchids . |
| 24 | A script for a 1942 BBC broadcast went for £500 , the Air Ministry design certificate for Lancaster prototype BT308 fetched £3,100 , a signed menu from the Dam Busters celebratory dinner on June 22 , 1943 realised £2,900 and an early sketch and calculations by Chadwick for the Avro Vulcan , together with his slide rule and desk-set was sold for £6,100 with most of the Chadwick collection going to a telephone bidder . |
| 25 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 26 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 27 | Teachers in ‘ difficult ’ schools received an extra 75 annually ( as against 120 recommended by Plowden ) . |
| 28 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 29 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 30 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |