Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | MN&N , which was formed after a number of senior managers left Watson & Philip in 1991 , now employs 215 people throughout Scotland . |
| 2 | Eventually it was realised that a number of other conclusions could be drawn from the analysis which were relevant to the development or selection of a computer system , such as : |
| 3 | During the night the police sealed off the hospital so that no one might know precisely who was wounded or the number of casualties . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 5 | This piece of verbal jugglery was invented as a ready response to the increasingly common question as to why after so many billions and so many decades of effort by the experts and the international development set , the gap between the rich and poor was widening and the number of destitute people had increased to nearly a billion . |
| 6 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |
| 7 | By the time Coleman died it was said that the number of veterinary surgeons practising in the three kingdoms fell little short of 1,000 . |
| 8 | In the Hussainara case , it was revealed that a number of destitute women had been held in prison for several years awaiting the trials of men accused of raping them . |
| 9 | The enterprise culture was born and the number of new paper millionaires mushroomed from around 5,000 to 18,000 . |
| 10 | This impasse was to last until a number of dramatic events changed the face of the industry and markedly reduced the power of the trade unions . |
| 11 | It was noted that a number of forms and procedures had been devised by the Clerical Assistant and the OIC , and it was considered possible that the analysis might have been more revealing in other establishments where the approach to administrative work was not so methodical . |
| 12 | The assessment was accepted and the application granted by the Crown Estate , although the area of the farm was reduced and the number of salmon cages cut from 58 to 30 for other reasons . |
| 13 | Pahdra Singh has just called to say that while he was at the funeral his house was burgled and a number of valuable antiques were stolen . |
| 14 | In a study in which children 's eye movements were recorded while they scanned an array and listened to messages to focus on items in the array ( Lloyd , 1983 ) , it was found that the number of shifts between the items in the referent array varied significantly as a function of message adequacy . |
| 15 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 16 | After a three-year investigation involving the Police Complaints Authority , it was announced that a number of police officers were to be admonished or advised about their conduct and were to face disciplinary charges . |
| 17 | It was assumed that a number of serving ministers from Hun Sen 's Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP , the new name chosen in October by what had been the Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party or KPRP ) would resign to make way for representatives of the monarchist Funcinpec Party led by Sihanouk 's son Norodom Ranaridh . |
| 18 | One mother was killed and a number captured or disappeared . |
| 19 | On Feb. 16 one person was killed and a number injured when a train , part of a military convoy carrying supplies to the NATO base at Malatya , was derailed near Pazarcik . |
| 20 | It was suggested that the number of voting peers should be about 230 , that the Government of the day should always have the largest number of peers but not an absolute majority . |
| 21 | The marked skin area was photographed and the number of dots counted from a projected negative magnified 10 times on a screen using a 20×20 cm grid ( 64 subareas ) centred on the injection site . |
| 22 | Ultimately , the Riot Act was read and a number of people were shot dead at North Sands . |