Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provisional casualty reports suggested that allied losses included 12 US Marines killed and 15 Saudi troops ; 30 Iraqi soldiers were reported killed and several tanks destroyed . |
| 2 | The effects on small cetaceans are unknown , but 10 gray whales were found dead on Alaskan beaches in May . |
| 3 | In an exchange of fire , six Armenian militants were shot dead , and 10 servicemen and a passer-by were injured . |
| 4 | From 1979 to 1987 , six Conservative Ministers were found guilty of breaking the law — in their official capacity , I hasten to add ; I hate to think what the tally is now . |
| 5 | Three German nationals were given suspended sentences by a court in Bochum , Germany , on Sept. 21 for illegally exporting rocket engine parts to Iraq . |
| 6 | Foreign Minister Collins paid an official visit to the Soviet Union on July 20-23 , 1991 , during which three bilateral agreements were signed improving political consultation and developing cultural , economic , industrial and scientific co-operation . |
| 7 | Three other officers were given suspended three-year sentences for destroying evidence . |
| 8 | But it was also claimed that in the late 1970s certain telephones were tapped irrespective of any industrial dispute . |
| 9 | Only two of the 25 disabled professionals were given substantial concessions during their training . |
| 10 | Indeed , eight out of ten manual workers are paid weekly in cash . |
| 11 | Ten local councils are charged capped |
| 12 | The news that no less than five new endings were shot due to poor reaction at the preview screenings hardly augers well . |
| 13 | And twenty American servicemen are feared dead after air crashes in the Gulf . |
| 14 | Two Israeli reservists are shot dead in Gaza City . |
| 15 | In the early 1960s generous grants were made available to encourage farmers to move away from the village centre where lack of hygiene and noise were obviously troublesome to ‘ re-settle ’ near their plots of land . |
| 16 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 17 | Two unlinked genes were found homologous to Oct-11 in the mouse genome in contrast to rats and humans which have only one ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | Two elderly Palestinians were shot dead on Nov. 6 near the West Bank town of Nablus in an apparent act of revenge for Kahane 's assassination . |
| 19 | Similarly , right hemisphere patients were inferior at reproducing by touch alone the angle at which two movable rods were set relative to each other ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti 1971 ) . |
| 20 | In August 1990 two Buddhist monks were shot dead by soldiers at an anti-government demonstration in Mandalay . |
| 21 | In an act of " self defence " , the Supreme Court also threatened to consider an MNR request made 18 months previously to the National Electoral Court that the May 1989 presidential elections be declared null and void because of alleged gross irregularities in the departments of Beni , Oruro and Potosi [ see p. 36652 ] . |
| 22 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 23 | Bearing in mind that the departments comprised a multitude of functions , and , at this point in the study , no detailed breakdown of these functions was available , two parallel exercises were considered necessary to progress the study , ie one concerned with clarifying roles and information needs , and the second exploring and quantifying the existing information base , as represented by the central and outposted filing systems . |
| 24 | The two main buildings were called Main School and Bede House . |
| 25 | The Champ 's two boxed-off channels are labelled Normal and Drive . |