Example sentences of "[num] were [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first year 's trapping suggested that Platycheirus albimanus was the commonest garden hoverfly , forming almost a fifth of the total catch ; a fifth of the species trapped in 1972 were represented by only one individual , and the average number of individuals per species was 29 . |
| 2 | He also said that his government would welcome the return of the 80,000 Ugandans Asians who in 1972 were forced by Amin to flee the country [ see pp. 25469-70 ] , and confirmed that they would be able to recover their property or seek compensation for their losses . |
| 3 | Iraqi claims that the oil had been released by allied attacks on two Iraqi tankers on Jan. 22 were dismissed by most commentators . |
| 4 | The route from Bombay 's Victoria Terminus perhaps the most impressive station in the world , and noted for its decorative friezes which are dedicated to the railways of North-East England , including Stephenson and the embryonic Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses 100 bridge spans in the first 24 miles , of which 22 were fabricated by DWEC ( 1878–1905 ) . |
| 5 | The riots in 1981 and 1985 were thought by some to be a product of racial tension . |
| 6 | Wilson claimed that at least 30 were promoted by the Shipping Federation alone . |
| 7 | Scott 's research show that among the top 250 British enterprises in 1976 , 43 were controlled by personal shareholders , 71 by corporate owners , and 110 by a mixture ( Scott , 1985 , p. 77 ) . |
| 8 | I SAY that Rocky Marciano had 49 fights , of which 43 were won by knockout , six went the distance and there were no draws . |
| 9 | Immunoreactive LTB 4 , LTC 4 , and PGE 2 were measured by radioimmunoassay and results were expressed as pg/mg wet weight of gastric biopsy sample . |
| 10 | Concentrations of PGE 2 and TXB 2 were measured by radioimmunoassay and the results expressed as pg/mg/wet weight of gastric biopsy . |
| 11 | Riots in Nouadhibou , Mauritania 's principal port , on June 2 were sparked by " young people of the poor quarters " spontaneously protesting about bread price rises and the allocation of municipal water pipes ( according to Radio France International on June 3 ) . |
| 12 | ALL of the leading Temps who gathered to witness the Earl of Carlisle opening their Institute in Gladstone Street on September 23 1903 were captured by a cameraman . |
| 13 | Apart from these , only four other PJC-2s were ordered by private pilots and together with the prototype , eleven were sold when the need to build-up America 's defences led to a curb on the use of strategic materials and production ceased . |
| 14 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 15 | In 1980–1 , for example , there were probably about 65 Dip.HE courses on offer in public sector colleges , of which 45 were validated by the CNAA and the remainder by universities . |
| 16 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 17 | In the autonomous Serbian province of Kosovo , where 6,000 Albanian teachers were being threatened with dismissal for refusal to comply with the Serbian curriculum , some 1,000 Albanian teachers demonstrating in the capital , Pristina , on Sept. 10 were dispersed by police . |
| 18 | Six were surveyed by David Baldock of the Institute for European Environmental Policy ( IEEP ) in 1989 ( see table ) . |
| 19 | Mr Dear repeated that , although the six were interviewed by the squad , there was no link he could see , although he understood the well-placed concern — ‘ which must be highly confused now , given the way in which the pro-Provisional propaganda machine is running , fogging the issue ’ . |
| 20 | The branch plant manufacturing industries which arrived after 1963 were attracted by generous regional subsidies ( see Robinson et al. , |
| 21 | The audiences at the first performances of The Creation in Vienna in the late 1790s were entranced by Haydn 's musical depictions of every living creature from the mighty eagle to the lowly worm . |
| 22 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 23 | The 70s were dominated by Eddy Merckx , who won from 1969–72 and again in 1974 . |
| 24 | As part of the £11.5 million in state aid pledged last year to Britain 's cathedrals , £5.4 million in grants for 1992–94 were announced by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu on 22 March ( see The Art Newspaper No. 13 , December 1991 , p.2 ) . |
| 25 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 had been followed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1894 were accompanied by further discussions of local government reform . |
| 26 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |
| 27 | Social scientists doing research at the estate in the seventies were told by one tenant that it would have been " difficult to be more isolated if you had lived in Egypt " . |
| 28 | In 1987 , 10 per cent of such women aged 25–9 were protected by sterilization , 24 per cent of women aged 30–4 , 46 per cent aged 35–9 . |
| 29 | The pattern of relative abundance of Ichneumonidae is quite different : nearly a third of the 455 species trapped during 1972–73 were represented by single individuals , and the seven commonest species made up only 22 per cent of the catch . |
| 30 | Half of all maternal deaths in the US in 1975 were caused by contraceptive complications . |