Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mobility of each polypeptide of the expressed proteins on SDS-PAGE , the M.wt. of r74s containing the C-terminal sequence down to the 435th , 356th , 256th , 205th , 136th and 73rd amino acid were calculated to be 74 , 62 , 32 , 27 , 21 and 16kDa , respectively . |
| 2 | During the placebo experiments basal serum gastrin was 10 ( 1 ) pM , meal stimulated serum gastrin values peaked at 54 ( 4 ) pM , while integrated meal stimulated serum gastrin responses were calculated to be 157 ( 13 ) pM/hour ( Figs 1–3 ) . |
| 3 | At a news conference on May 5 a member of the Cuban Communist Party political bureau , Carlos Lage Dávila , stated that projected imports for 1992 were expected to be 58 per cent down on 1991 and that imported fuel would total 6,000,000 tonnes compared with the previous " usual " annual figure of 13,300,000 tonnes . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | At one time the Pinot Blanc and the Chardonnay , which used to be erroneously called the Pinot Chardonnay , were considered to be one and the same , which is why there is usually evidence of its existence wherever the Chardonnay is traditionally cultivated . |
| 6 | The benefits of synergy or cross-fertilisation were claimed to be one of the main reasons for the link-up . |
| 7 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 8 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 9 | The latter were thought to be Yak-9s , considered ‘ one of the USSR 's better conventional fighters , which compares well with USAF 's F-51 ’ . |
| 10 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 11 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 12 | In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly . |
| 13 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 14 | She was n't sure whether there were any artists or writers in town at the moment , but there were bound to be one or two back in the city after the Christmas recess . |
| 15 | There were known to be four coastal guns , mounted with anti-aircraft batteries , on Maaloy to defend the Ulvesund anchorage where convoys sheltered in bad weather or gathered before crossing more open waters not protected by outer islands . |
| 16 | By 1914 there were known to be 114 of them . |
| 17 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 18 | Three types of abnormal results were recognised and all abnormal results were judged to be one of these types : rapid emptying , slow emptying , or biphasic emptying ( early rapid emptying followed by normal or slow emptying ) . |
| 19 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 20 | In 1986 there were estimated to be 1.6 million children living in one parent families — one in eight of all dependent children . |
| 21 | There were estimated to be 260 in Brighthelmstone ( Brighton ) , 173 in Lewes and 300 in Rye , held together by their own sense of righteousness . |
| 22 | Four years later , in 1804 , we find that ‘ Charles William Titford and Daniel Slamp … ’ were elected to be two of the Company 's stewards , |
| 23 | The S phase duration was calculated to be 10 hours . |
| 24 | The risk was calculated to be 1.53 for current smokers and 1.39 for ex-cigarette smokers . |
| 25 | The number of passengers on Russian railways in 1922 was calculated to be 91.1 million , as opposed to 184.8 million in 1913 . |
| 26 | We estimated that a change of five points in the Spielberger score might be clinically significant ; to detect this with 95% power ( assuming a standard deviation of 6 ) the required sample size was calculated to be 40–50 patients in each group . |
| 27 | The maximum concentration of free fatty acid in the incubation mixture was calculated to be 50 µM . |
| 28 | The prescribing unit for the two study practices was calculated to be 3.3 based on cost for patients over 65 years ( men 4.1 , women 2.8 ) and 3.9 for items ( men 4.7 and women 3.3 ) . |
| 29 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 30 | From earliest days , the proportion of the hexagon was recommended to be 5 units deep , 4 units wide with the cross-spars 3 units apart and this simple formula with units at 500mm ( 19¾in ) has sufficed adequately . |