Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sludge Disposal Vessel ‘ Gardyloo ’ built to operate from the new facility was in fact completed in August 1876 and immediately chartered for work on the Clyde while awaiting completion of the Seafield Works . |
| 2 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 3 | Having been burned in 1933 and nearly destroyed in 1945 , it became a symbol of Democracy in a divided city , standing empty beside the Wall and prevented , by the threat of Soviet veto , from serving any purpose . |
| 4 | The town also became the home of Scotland 's first university , founded in 1410 and formally recognized by the Pope at Avignon three years later . |
| 5 | NGC 1528 , yet another open cluster , is difficult with × 7 , easy with × 12 and partly resolved with × 20 . |
| 6 | Caroline was leading after dressage with a score of 41.60 and only incurred 6.40 penalties for time on cross country to take the lead with 48.00 just one point ahead of Marco Biasia from Italy on 49 . |
| 7 | Aged twenty-one and just commissioned when the Cigognes moved to Verdun , he had first leapt to fame the previous summer when , as a Corporal , he had despatched three German planes in a morning . |
| 8 | The Old English Pearmain , recorded in 1204 and so named because of its pear-like shape , was the main dessert apple until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | In the settings of four aphoristic poems by Istvan Balint for soprano and 14 players — which Kurtag began in 1972 and recently revised — the outside influences declared themselves quite readily , whether they were from East European folk music or Webern : and in this performance , the soprano Adrienne Csengery and Sinfonietta excelled themselves with sudden flashes of colour and bursts of intense virtuosity . |
| 10 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |
| 11 | He continued to assert that he would not live beyond the age of forty and even implied that he would take steps to ensure this . |
| 12 | The lorry-driver was about forty and powerfully built . |
| 13 | He was baptised by John Kingdon in the chapel 's own ‘ baptistry ’ on Friday 5 May 1780 and officially received into the church two days later . |
| 14 | The business , which has seen a remarkable change in its fortunes since Henk van Eck , a Dutch executive , rescued the ailing operation in 1985 and subsequently installed an ambitious management team , now has an impressive 20 per cent share of the Scottish market . |
| 15 | The Aug. 6 statement was accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage Terry Anderson , kidnapped in March 1985 and now detained for longer than any other of the Westerners captive in Lebanon . |
| 16 | The London Deaf Video Project ( LDVP ) , established in 1985 and initially funded by the former Greater London Council , exists to provide the deaf community with information through video tapes in BSL Subjects treated so far include AIDS , welfare benefits , the dangers of smoking solicitors and their services , and the need for retirement . |
| 17 | On the one hand we may trace the influence of the theories of ‘ adaptation to environment ’ , a natural extension of the policy of indirect rule , argued in the influential reports of the Phelps Stokes Commissions in the early nineteen-twenties and brilliantly summarised in the memorandum of the Colonial Office 's Advisory Committee on Native Education , Educational Policy in British Tropical Africa , 1925 — hence the school gardens ( or the remains of them ) , the handwork , the needlework , the local History and Geography programmes and the ‘ vernacular ’ syllabuses . |
| 18 | In July 1897 , having already purchased the Union Canals in 1894 and just completed options to purchase the Leicester Navigation , and the Loughborough and Erewash Canals , the committee resolved to purchase the necessary land at Foxton and instructed that tenders for the lift machinery be obtained . |
| 19 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 20 | This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 . |
| 21 | A paper by the Russian scientist D. Ivanovsky , published in 1892 and often regarded as the beginning of the science of virology , describes how a disease of tobacco plants can be transmitted by the sap after it has passed through a filter capable of retaining bacteria and other particles . |
| 22 | This was the question of the hour for much of January 1991 and thoroughly documented by Platt 's . |
| 23 | Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | The party 's considered response to these and other discussions was a draft Programme , ‘ Socialism , Democracy , Progress ’ , which was approved by a Central Committee plenum in July 1991 and subsequently published for discussion . |
| 25 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 26 | Details of the ‘ community charge reduction scheme ’ were produced in January 1991 and then modified in March 1991 . |
| 27 | The History of Sandford and Merton , by Thomas Day ( 1748–89 ) first published 1783–9 and constantly reprinted . |
| 28 | At the close of business , the one hundred index had managed to rally from it 's low but still ended down 30.3 points at 2064 and volly remained light with only 379 million shares traded . |
| 29 | Denmark and Saxony hired out considerable forces to the anti-French coalition during the War of the Spanish Succession , while Britain employed Russian auxiliaries in 1747–48 and confidently expected to obtain others for use against the American colonists in 1775 . |
| 30 | Jackson was virtually forced out of the game at the age of 26 and never played professionally again , and Cheyne was driven overseas to the French club Nimes . |