Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In April the ninth SPA was elected with the usual efficiency : turnout was claimed to be 99.78 per cent , with 100 per cent of votes cast for the successful candidates . |
| 32 | At this time Singapore was reported to be one of Myanma 's main suppliers of arms and ammunition . |
| 33 | The continuing high level of inflation was reported to be one of the principal causes of public dissatisfaction with the party , which had been founded by Özal as a broad alliance in 1983 . |
| 34 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 35 | For example , the average property value in England in 1991 was deemed to be 80,000 , i.e. it is located in band D — between 68,000 and 88,000 ( column one ) . |
| 36 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 37 | He was considered to be one of the most dangerous of all the fascists and was interned until the end of the Second World War . |
| 38 | Although is mother 's house had always been spotless , and was considered to be one of the most exclusive brothels in the red-light district , it too had managed to capture some of the essence of the tenements , a lingering miasma that no matter how often the skivvies scrubbed and washed the floors and walls still managed to seep into the house . |
| 39 | As James Mountford confirms , the stimulus of the war had generated a whole range of books about universities and their function , of which Leavis 's was considered to be one of the most important examples . |
| 40 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 41 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth in the coming year was forecast to be 5 per cent . |
| 42 | According to the Fiji Reserve Bank , GDP growth was expected to be 5 per cent . |
| 43 | The centre-right government in office since October 1991 presented a revised finance bill on April 24 , after it had emerged that the budget deficit for 1992/93 was expected to be 101,800 million kronor ( representing 6.9 per cent of gross domestic product — GDP ) , well above the 70,800 million kronor expected when the 1992/93 draft budget was presented in January [ see p. 38737 ] . |
| 44 | In the Greek-Cypriot controlled area the growth of the economy in 1991 was expected to be 4.5 per cent , unemployment 2 per cent and inflation 4.5 per cent . |
| 45 | Oil revenue was expected to be 257,000 million francs CFA , with other revenue ( excluding loans ) set at 181,000 million francs CFA ; the investment budget was set at 102,000 million francs CFA . |
| 46 | This was expected to be one of the issues to be raised during the meeting . |
| 47 | Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers . |
| 48 | Industrial production in 1992 was expected to be 20 per cent down , and capital investment 50-55 per cent down , compared with 1991 . |
| 49 | ( The 1991 deficit was expected to be 4.75 per cent of net national income . ) |
| 50 | He was reckoned to be one of the officers prepared to use force to put down the revolution . |
| 51 | Being a soft teacher was seen to be one of the worst categories of offence . |
| 52 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 53 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 54 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 55 | Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse . |
| 56 | Almost as hard to credit , the figure for the number of nuclear explosions set off by the French in the Pacific since 1975 was said to be 52 . |
| 57 | On Mr calculations for the defendant on the other hand the cost was said to be six hundred and twenty thousand three h three hundred pounds and thirty one pence . |
| 58 | Sustained performance was said to be 38 MFLOPS to 42 MFLOPS double precision . |
| 59 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 60 | By Nov. 24 the death toll was said to be 214 , with 300 seriously wounded . |