Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1972 eleven colleges were granted delegated authority for MPhil registrations . |
| 2 | In the most serious incident four Georgians were reportedly doused with petrol and burned alive by Ossetes after being ambushed outside Tskhinvali ; another three Georgians were shot dead by USSR Interior Ministry troops whom they had attempted to ambush . |
| 3 | Equipment worth forty thousand pounds was stolen last year and car theft is once again a major problem . |
| 4 | A similar procedure took place when the claim was for more than £5,000 and the case was adjudicated in the High Court , where in 1987 another 67,054 warrants were issued called ‘ writs of fieri facias ’ shortened to ‘ fi fa ’ . |
| 5 | Though some 98 employees were made redundant 15 or 16 months ago , Bearpark foresees no more in the near future . |
| 6 | A further 1,400 jobs were cut last year , bringing the total headcount down to 7,100 , down from a peak of 17,700 in 1984 . |
| 7 | Er , because er our submission for a grant regarding these two sites were submitted prior to all this coming forth |
| 8 | Behrensmeyer ( 1978 : 153 ) defines weathering as encompassing physical and chemical agents operating both on the surface and within the soil zone , but in the present work these two factors are kept separate . |
| 9 | These two models were suggested some years ago by Jerry Cook . |
| 10 | Money balances held for these two purposes are called active balances : money to be used as a medium of exchange . |
| 11 | Sales continued to rise , its price being held down so that by 1953 , fifty thousand copies were sold each month . |
| 12 | In the Foest of Dean alone , an estimated 5,000 squirrels are poisoned each summer and another 800 are shot . |
| 13 | At the Marquis , where non-management staff are known as associates , all 1800 employees were given half day seminars on TQM1 : Empowerment . |
| 14 | If life expectancy improves when all four indicators are held constant or also improve then clearly an unambiguous benefit to health has taken place . |
| 15 | All four shops were found guilty , but were given an absolute discharge . |
| 16 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 17 | M. and Mme Guérigny lived the week long exclusively in the bedroom and kitchen , and only those two rooms were kept heated . |
| 18 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 19 | Ten million bats are born each summer in Bracken Cave , Texas . |
| 20 | During the next three years , nearly 10,000 million dollars were made available to Europe in ‘ Marshall Aid ’ , which not only enabled Europe to recover and increase goods and services by twenty-five per cent over that three years , but also ensured a market for American-made goods . |
| 21 | On Jan. 13 three men were shot dead by two soldiers in plain clothes as they attempted to rob a betting shop in Falls Road , west Belfast . |
| 22 | The first three ganglia are situated one in each of the thoracic segments , and are known as the thoracic ganglia ; the remainder lie in the abdomen and form the ganglia of that region . |
| 23 | Over five million crimes were recorded last year , but the real total is certainly higher . |
| 24 | According to the official figures , in 1984 , 1 million women were registered unemployed , compared with 2.3 million men . |
| 25 | Over one million claimants were denied further guaranteed payments and the amount of relief was fixed by Public Assistance Committees on the basis of family resources . |
| 26 | About 13 000 households are interviewed each year in Great Britain , the questions covering constantly varying subjects such as family composition , housing , unemployment , illness , and medical attention , long-distance journeys , educational qualifications , etc . |
| 27 | ‘ Several thousand cases are sold each year , ’ says an Invergordon spokesman , ‘ but most of the sales are in Britain . |
| 28 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 29 | Eight hundred extras are made ready . |
| 30 | Thirty thousand tons are eaten each year . |