Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty-three were taken out of the reckoning , including 10 trained by Henry Cecil . |
| 2 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 3 | The prospect of Prime Minister John Major calling an early general election ( due by mid-1992 ) in June 1991 was ruled out by the poor performance of the ruling Conservative Party in parliamentary by-elections in two Welsh constituencies on April 4 and May 16 , and in local elections in England and Wales on May 2 . |
| 4 | Here at Halling from 1820–30 , £80 5 7 was paid out to the poor at an average of 2/ per week . |
| 5 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 6 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 7 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 8 | Many new shipping companies formed in the late 1800's were set up on the strength of the coal markets . |
| 9 | She was n't going to be happy until that two-fifty was zapped back across the void to Mirabeau Precinct . |
| 10 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 11 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 12 | About $17 billion was siphoned out of the country into foreign bank accounts in 1992 , he estimates . |
| 13 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 14 | The C3 was built at Aeronca 's Lunken Airport , Cincinnati , plant , and in 1936 , 16 were shipped over to the delightfully- named Aeroplane Exchange & Mart Limited of Hanworth Air Park . |
| 15 | Class 313s continued to look after the inner suburban system , and the now non-standard 1977-series Class 312s were packed off to the Colchester line . |
| 16 | I knew that on the island one was driven back into the past . |
| 17 | In a few seconds , two fell dead , one was running back into the trees , and four were inside the stockade . |
| 18 | Level 1 was left out from the calculation of the ANOVA in Table 6 since the question ‘ was there a word present ? ’ can not have a non-zero entry for the cell corresponding to a No answer . |
| 19 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 20 | And as the 1980s drew to a close , the first locomotives of Class 60 were rolling out of the Brush works at Loughborough , destined to become the standard Railfreight traction unit well into the early years of the twenty-first century . |
| 21 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 22 | D9531 did most of the work , but on the day your scribe volunteered for train-crew duty , visiting North Staffs Railway 4F 0-6-0 No. 4422 was marked up on the engine roster . |
| 23 | Early in 1907 the SMET enquired whether any more were available , and received the reply that only two were left out of the batch of 10 , the others having been disposed of to Swansea ( 4 ) , and Jarrow ( 2 ) . |
| 24 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 25 | The position was even worse in 1981–82 , when £4 million was spent out of the £ 10 million allocated . |
| 26 | In 1981–82 , £ 14.6 million was spent out of the £ 19.1 million allocated . |
| 27 | A total of £3,500 million was taken out of the public-sector borrowing requirement . |
| 28 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 29 | A consultative document in 1986 was followed up by the White Paper Promoting Better Health ( DHSS 1987 ) . |
| 30 | well not everyone was racing around at the weekend … thousands were sitting out in the sun yesterday at Moreton in Marsh to enjoy a game of sunday cricket … it was Gloucestershire against Northamptonshire |