Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 2 | In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments , for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible . |
| 3 | In addition , thromboxane B 2 levels were found to be elevated in the peripheral blood of patients with Prinzmetal angina ( Lewy et al , 1979 ; Robertson et al , 1981 ) and in coronary sinus blood of patients with unstable angina ( Hirsh et al , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | ( The 1991 deficit was expected to be 4.75 per cent of net national income . ) |
| 5 | Of the additional data collected about these stimuli in Groeger and Chapman ( in preparation b ) the first six scales were chosen to be directly concerned with aspects of risk . |
| 6 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 7 | After further assessment six patients were considered to be inappropriate referrals and were returned for surgery ( two total obstruction , one tumour invading anus , three fit for surgery and resectable by anterior resection ) . |
| 8 | An estimated 250,000 soldiers were expected to be demobilized or integrated into a 50,000-strong national non-political army . |
| 9 | Three foxes were saved from being savagely ripped apart . |
| 10 | As early as Dec. 2 , three warships were reported to be proceeding towards the Somali coast carrying a 1,800-strong US Marine task force . |
| 11 | About 15 years ago , three months was considered to be sufficient time for a sales director with two years ' service to convince his company of his competence . |
| 12 | A period of three years was thought to be necessary for census-taking and drawing up electoral rolls . |
| 13 | During the study period three patients were found to be sensitive to the elemental diet formula used to induce remission and a further patient proved to have profound salicylate sensitivity . |
| 14 | All three men were considered to be representatives of the party 's younger generation . |
| 15 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 16 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 17 | This is something of a paradox when one remembers Lord Hailsham 's assurance that the 1981 Act was intended to be a liberalising measure . |
| 18 | Late on Jan. 11 Lithuanians were reported to be flooding into Vilnius in their thousands to reinforce cordons around key buildings . |
| 19 | The FAO said that the annual maize harvest in 11 countries was expected to be at least 25 per cent down and that countries which would normally export maize , notably South Africa and Zimbabwe , would themselves be seeking imports of the regional staple . |
| 20 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 21 | On Aug. 15 a UN flight left Nairobi , carrying high-protein biscuits to Baidoa , where some 500-700 people were estimated to be dying daily . |
| 22 | Later in the year the lantern of the Mid Swatch light buoy in the Thames Estuary was found peppered with holes made by shotgun pellets , while the Mucking No 5 buoy was extinguished after being shot at by an air rifle . |
| 23 | In nineteen ninety one , six thousand workplaces were found to be underpaying one or more workers . |
| 24 | Some compare Portia 's characteristics to that of the Queen at the time — Elizabeth I. Women were thought of being inferior and for a woman to have so much power was a very rare situation . |
| 25 | Between 80,000 and 100,000 dolphins were reckoned to be killed annually by tuna fishers in the eastern Pacific . |
| 26 | According to an International Wheat Council report in April 1989 , world wheat stocks at the end of the 1988-90 season were expected to be 103,000,000 tonnes — down from 135,000,000 tonnes at the end of the previous year — with the biggest decline being in US stocks [ see p. 36280 ] . |
| 27 | In 1752 the old Julian calendar was replaced by the more accurate Gregorian calendar and in order to bring England in line with Europe the next day after 3 September was proclaimed to be 14 September . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the health authority said only eight mothers were believed to be at risk of infection and not all of them had asked for an AIDS test . |
| 29 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |
| 30 | Above were the boarders ’ dormitories , a recreation room or two , the sick bay ( only one boy was allowed to be sick at a time ) and a small bedroom for Toby . |