Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] [noun pl] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , in January 1991 it was announced that the tests for 7 year olds had been modified and would take up half of teaching time for three weeks . |
| 2 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 3 | A total of 3,000 ballot papers had been distributed to ten polling places throughout the campus . |
| 4 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 5 | Prior to 1914 clockwork toys had been manufactured mainly in Germany and Hornby shrewdly foresaw that , with the war over , there would be a demand for such toys made in England . |