Example sentences of "of [n mass] were [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a block tariff , the initial kWh purchased carried a high price , but if consumption increased the extra blocks of kWh were charged at a significantly lower rate . |
| 2 | A bit of light relief in the summer of 1967 was a role in the film Billion Dollar Brain when a number of aircraft were painted with Soviet red star markings and were filmed being bombed-up and scrambling . |
| 3 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 4 | Damages of £8,000 were awarded by a jury against the " Daily Mirror " for that very imputation about Liberace in 1959 . |
| 5 | After the addition of agonist , 30 s segments of data were recorded at 1 minute intervals for 10- 15 minutes . |
| 6 | Both sets of data were provided by Pinpoint Analysis Ltd , who are undertaking this digitizing task for the entire country . |
| 7 | Damages of £20,000 were awarded against Granada Television in 1983 for unintentionally defaming a police officer in a " World in Action " programme about police corruption . |
| 8 | In June , Ecstasy worth £4,000 was seized on a bus at a checkpoint outside Londonderry In July , drugs with a street value of £10,000 were recovered in Newry And last month , a ‘ substantial ’ quantity of Ecstasy , LSD and amphetamines was found in a car at Culmore , Co Londonderry . |
| 9 | Various DIY tools worth a total of £430 were stolen by thieves who broke into a garage at a house in Bymoore Close , Great Ayton . |
| 10 | * Tens of thousands of fish were poisoned on 31 May after rainstorms flooded the Paris sewage system , causing spillage of toxic substances into the River Seine . |
| 11 | By now other species of fish were falling to Kate 's rod and also to Penny 's . |
| 12 | The pair of fish were removed from the community tank and placed in separate tanks in my fish house . |
| 13 | A further 300 tonnes of fish were suffocated in May , when raw sewage flooded into the river after a storm . |
| 14 | At one spot , two tonnes of fish were recovered from the bed of the river within the space of 48 hours . |
| 15 | Quite a lot of fish were returned to the water and I think we took over seventy in that couple of hours in the afternoon . |
| 16 | £640,000 was provided to the Local Enterprise network of Trusts and Area Initiatives for Business Development purposes , and investments in excess of £500,000 were made in Glasgow businesses . |
| 17 | AS rivers burst their banks , homes were flooded and hundreds of livestock were swept to their death , there was one key question that could still be sensibly asked yesterday . |
| 18 | During the course of a year , 1.1 million tons of merchandise and 800,000 head of livestock were dealt with . |
| 19 | Initiatives on recruitment and retention of staff were highlighted by a major national campaign run jointly by the Department of Health and Nursing Times in 1988 . |
| 20 | ‘ Two members of staff were invited by personal acquaintances in the Republican Party to visit the US for a few days to talk about the British general election . |
| 21 | Inside , members of staff were dressed in colourful beach wear , asking customers about their holiday plans and telling them about the Bank 's range of travel products . |
| 22 | Construction faults , equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents . |
| 23 | On this occasion , however , 12 members of staff were working in the Bury Street Office in preparation for the merger with the Great Tower Street Grouping . |
| 24 | ‘ A number of staff were evacuated as a precautionary measure . |
| 25 | Between October 1980 and March 1984 , 2,124 schemes had been submitted to the Snowdonia NPA ; an average of 87% were agreed without modification and 13% agreed with modifications . |
| 26 | Drugs with a street value of £1,600 were found in the car and £2,070 worth were discovered in the house . |
| 27 | Glumdalclitch was crying , and hundreds of people were watching from the garden . |
| 28 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 29 | The major network evening news programmes were being watched by an estimated 50 — 60 million people and 65 per cent of people were said to be getting 100 per cent of their news from such programmes . |
| 30 | According to António Arragão ( in Subsídios para a História da Cidade do Funchal , 1979 ) , before 1425 a small group of people were living in the area of Santa Maria do Calhau , mainly in single-storey straw-roofed buildings . |