Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 148 of the 168 procedures I recorded whether I used diathermy . |
| 2 | For both the 1654 and the 1659 Commons he kept a sort of diary . |
| 3 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 4 | Indeed , four of the eleven cases which got sustained coverage resulted in an acquittal . |
| 5 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 6 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | The eight players who made up America 's team ranged in age from Cathy Gerring , 29 to Pat Bradley in her 40th year . |
| 8 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 9 | The eight parties which had come together as the Kurdistan Front took part on May 19 in elections for an executive leader and a 105-seat Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly for the Kurds of northern Iraq . |
| 10 | She was supported by seven of the eight parties which had agreed to form a coalition Cabinet , although the Centre Alliance withdrew at the last minute . |
| 11 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 12 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 13 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 14 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 15 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 16 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 17 | Out of the eight men who fell in the fight , only three still breathed . |
| 18 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 19 | On the basis of this analysis , most of the fifty linguists who participated in the debate could not subscribe to a straightforward conception of linguistic equality . |
| 20 | Of the 365 visitors who gave the location of their permanent home , slightly more than a third ( 38% ) were from in or near Edinburgh , while the next largest group , accounting for just over a quarter ( 27% ) of those who replied , did not come from elsewhere in Scotland , but from parts of the UK outside Scotland . |
| 21 | This makes a change from the 1989/90 accounts which contained a full page of audit qualifications . |
| 22 | A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council . |
| 23 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 24 | The match-winners were Newton , who added five penalties to the 478 points he had already scored this season , and Ness , the Scots captain . |
| 25 | The chief innovation however , were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side . |
| 26 | The proposal was therefore dropped , but the 500 men who had started their parachute training became the nucleus of 1 Airborne Division formed in November 1941 . |
| 27 | Most of the Poles who went to Russia in the belief that this would help to restore their country 's independent existence never returned : of the 82,000 Poles who made up the Grand Armée 's V Corps , only 2,300 survived the retreat from Moscow . |
| 28 | This followed the Romanian government 's suspension in January of the 1948 decrees which eliminated five of the seven Roman Catholic dioceses in the country and forcibly incorporated the Eastern Rite Catholics ( Uniates ) into the Romanian Orthodox Church . |
| 29 | Of the 750 men who had originally walked out , 450 were still in Edinburgh ; of these 200 were still unemployed a week later and it was thought that full absorption would take up to six months ; in fact by early April , only 20 strikers were still without work . |
| 30 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |