Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One computer printout format included incidences of errors and diagnostic information as well as right or wrong codings , but it proved time-consuming for teachers to use and expensive to produce and post , so generally only the simpler right or wrong data were sent to the schools . |
| 2 | The data were fitted to the equation , in which c.p.m . |
| 3 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 4 | Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone . |
| 5 | After a spell of squadron service the aircraft was transferred to the Air Force Academy . |
| 6 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 7 | Final flight came when the aircraft was retired to the Air Force Museum at Dayton , Ohio . |
| 8 | The aircraft was presented to the Museum on extended loan and became part of NAM 's ‘ Meteor comer ’ along with RB.108 test-bed FR.9 VZ608 , T.7 VZ634 , NF.12 WS692 and NF.14 WS739 . |
| 9 | This aircraft was returned to the maintenance unit for an engine refit around May 21st . |
| 10 | As the data was applied to the design of each section , the various elements began magically to fit together ; most plants or animals would only fit a particular niche in the illustration . |
| 11 | Quite a lot of fish were returned to the water and I think we took over seventy in that couple of hours in the afternoon . |
| 12 | When $15,000 and then $10,000 was paid to the wife of an admiral without the captain rising even one rank , his indignant lady publicly demanded her money back . |
| 13 | The fish was returned to the pond , the frog ‘ despatched elsewhere ’ . |
| 14 | £640,000 was provided to the Local Enterprise network of Trusts and Area Initiatives for Business Development purposes , and investments in excess of £500,000 were made in Glasgow businesses . |
| 15 | The total cost was estimated at $600,000 , although only around $60,000 was reimbursed to the government either by Sununu or by the Republican Party . |
| 16 | More and more people were looking to the drains , rather than to providence . |
| 17 | People came running with lanterns and torches , and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house . |
| 18 | During the same period over 303,200 people were admitted to the party , which had some 2,155,000 members . |
| 19 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 20 | It was a sign of the dawning self-consciousness of the age that more and more people were turning to the vernacular to express their deepest thoughts and feelings . |
| 21 | In that way people were bidden to the funeral . |
| 22 | The staff were pared to the bone and in order to open the house to paying visitors the stable block was turned into a tea room and gift shop . |
| 23 | Fifteen MPs were appointed to the Committee , and Hall was elected chairman at its first meeting on 30th May . |
| 24 | However , in 1988 the responsibility for the employment of disabled people was returned to the Department of Employment , whilst schemes such as TOPs no longer exist . |
| 25 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 26 | At EN 's general meeting in Istanbul last September , $20,000 was allocated to the folly at Schoonbeek , whose surrounding garden is already on the International Council of Monuments and Sites and International Federation of Landscape Architects list of protected gardens . |
| 27 | If X died leaving an estate of £1,150,000 and under the variation £150,000 went to the children and £1M to the widow and subsequently ( not as part of a preordained scheme ) the £1M was transferred to the children and the widow survived the normal seven years , no inheritance tax would be payable . |
| 28 | However , it was given its name before many of today 's really aggressive species were introduced to the hobby , and it is not that violent a fish ! |
| 29 | On 31st March 1991 , dividends of £121,000 were paid to the preference shareholders . |
| 30 | Knowledge of distant lands was consolidated and an ever-widening stream of newly discovered species was brought to the notice of European scientists . |