Example sentences of "[num] were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only four men aged between eighteen and forty-five were described in the returns as farmers . |
| 2 | Two people died and 542 were injured in the London terminus accident . |
| 3 | A number of documents concerning trading contacts between the two countries in 1993 were signed at the meeting . |
| 4 | Wilson claimed that at least 30 were promoted by the Shipping Federation alone . |
| 5 | By the 1970s , hundreds were employed in the manufacture of articles from a variety of polymeric materials . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 8 | CCOO has about 17,000 members or 26 per cent of the workforce , and SLF-UGT 12–13,000 ( of which something under 2,000 were brought into the union by the SLF ) . |
| 9 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One person died and 26 were injured in the attacks . |
| 12 | One person died and 26 were injured in the 1985 bombings . |
| 13 | Of the present 28 residents , 26 were referred via the Dingleton community Team for the Elderly Mentally ill , and the other 2 from local GPs who had requested Dingleton advice . |
| 14 | The six were charged with the murder of three men in Bushenyi district in the south-west in 1983 . |
| 15 | Of the remaining 63 patients six were withdrawn before the end of the trial period for reasons given in table II . |
| 16 | From a record entry of 30 business plans , six were identified as the most promising and went forward to the final where they were interviewed by an experienced panel of judges . |
| 17 | A further six were excluded from the audiometric analysis because of unreliable preoperative audiometric data , leaving 118 in the adenoidectomy group and 73 in the other . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | In 1689 and 1692 troops of King William III were quartered in the town , on the latter occasion staying for the winter . |
| 20 | The data from 256 children were evaluated ; 209 were admitted to the hospital . |
| 21 | In all 228,000 US reservists had been called into service , of whom 106,000 were deployed in the Gulf ( 20,000 being still there at the time of the June 11 announcement ) ; the total US armed forces contingent in the Gulf had numbered 541,000 . |
| 22 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of the 51 people in the study whose voting behaviour was known , 47 were entered on the household electoral form . |
| 25 | For 1969–83 registrations at age 15–24 were obtained from the Northern Region Cancer Registry and ( for 1969–73 in what is now South Cumbria ) the North Western Regional Cancer Registry ; in general , no further effort was made to ascertain cases . |
| 26 | Of the 60 members , 35 were elected by the members of the House of Representatives , 15 were selected from the country 's five development zones and 10 were directly appointed by King Birendra [ see p. 38193 for May election of House of Representatives ] . |
| 27 | Canary yellow , no. 108 , ochre , No. 184 and brown ochre , No. 182 were applied for the golden glazes on the coffee pot , cup and saucer , with an ultimate highlight of white . |
| 28 | Also in September 1989 pupils in key stages 1–3 were brought within the scope of section 10(3) of the Act — which provides that prior to the introduction of the prescribed ATs and PS the subjects should be covered for a ‘ reasonable time ’ , taken to mean sufficient for ‘ worthwhile study ’ in each subject . |
| 29 | The other three were seated round the rickety kitchen table , its surface covered with empty coffee mugs , lager and Coca-Cola cans and an overflowing ashtray . |
| 30 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |