Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the original Oct-11 clone had been isolated from testis cDNA using PCR ( 30 ) , screening of three different testis cDNA libraries , including one that was unamplified , failed to reveal any clones corresponding to Oct-11 . |
| 2 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 3 | By March 1900 , 190,000 copies had been sold in England and there were special Welsh and American editions . |
| 4 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 5 | Creation stories from eight cultures had been distinguished — Egyptian , Norse , African , Oceanic , Greek , Mexican , Indian and the Genesis account — and these could be divided amongst the eight groups very happily , with the addition of timetabled periods of art and music-drama for double groups , in which basic techniques were linked to suitable themes ( for instance , shrine-building , rain-making ceremonies ) . |
| 6 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
| 7 | By the time De Lorean closed , more than 18,000 cars had been made but only 9,000 were sold , mainly to collectors . |
| 8 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |
| 9 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 10 | Worse was to follow , for they were taken by bus to Takali where 261 Squadron had been ordered to prepare for departure to the Middle East , 249 being the unit 's relief- and they were ordered to take 249 's new Hurricanes with them , leaving most of their own well-worn machines behind . |
| 11 | At that time nearly 300 prisoners had been released by the mobs . |
| 12 | It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day . |
| 13 | Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty . |
| 14 | It began among the casuals and spread rapidly to the inmates and staff , so that by mid-February 22 cases had been diagnosed and transferred to the smallpox hospital . |
| 15 | Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities . |
| 16 | The original thirty-six aircraft had been increased or replaced by about thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft . |
| 17 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
| 18 | By Nov. 8 a total of 12 Iranians had been detained while crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border in the western Negev desert . |
| 19 | A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned . |
| 20 | An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank . |
| 21 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 22 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 23 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 24 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 25 | By one year , 12 recurrences had been diagnosed by ultrasonagraphy but only seven had been detected by oral cholecystectography . |
| 26 | He added that since the campaign started on 2 February , 175 weapons had been dumped in the bins sited at police stations in his division , 21 of them in the 24-hour period covering the time of the attack on PC Jobson . |
| 27 | Later investigation showed that over 1,600 cables had been damaged , a third of them concerned with safety . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the Amsterdam Fire Brigade said at least 30 flats had been destroyed . |
| 29 | In this study only 4 out of a total of 174 memories reported were actually related to public events . |
| 30 | Amid a torrent of press accusations of Machiavellian deception , the Italian Interior Ministry later said that 2,267 Albanians had been deported , while 788 , mainly deserting soldiers , were allowed to stay . |