Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mass of lead(II) iodide produced was 2.305 g . |
| 2 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 3 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 4 | The implication of it relating strictly to tariff involves an assumption that the tariff advised was 17 years ' detention as punishment for retribution and deterrence . |
| 5 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 6 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 7 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 8 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 9 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 10 | The average length of the colonic loop studied was 20 cm . |
| 11 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 12 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 13 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 14 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 15 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 16 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 17 | Lome IV was signed in December 1989 ( see p. 37133 ) and was to come into effect in March 1990 for a 10-year period ( unlike the previous conventions , whose duration had been five years ) . |
| 18 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 19 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 20 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 21 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 22 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 23 | In other words the money spent was one way of stopping ‘ leakage ’ to other denominations ; the new chapels also tended to enhance loyalty and to lessen disaffection over trifling matters . |
| 24 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |
| 25 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 26 | Sister Casualty had been two years junior to Margaret in training . |
| 27 | He was a vassal , as indeed his father had been forty years earlier . |
| 28 | In other words , the graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend . |
| 29 | The graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend |
| 30 | Thus the immediate practical relief offered was two days of day care at a progressive old peoples ' home , where Stanley was encouraged in his piano playing to make a lively contribution . |