Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Bio-technology Group achieved a total income of £1.95m during the half year ended 31 October 1991 , against £2.35m in the previous year Income from Research Division was £342 000 and from Laboratory Products Division was £1.61m . |
| 2 | A NEW hi-tech window sealant from Courtaulds Aerospace Commercial Products Division was launched simultaneously in the UK and US in February . |
| 3 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 4 | On the same day the implied yield on the September government-bond futures contract was over 5% . |
| 5 | Therefore , ignoring transactions costs and taxation , an arbitrage profit of £547.60 per futures contract was available by selling futures and buying shares . |
| 6 | In 1977 the US T-bond futures contract was launched ; it is now the world 's most successful futures contract . |
| 7 | In November 1991 the CME 's eurodollar futures contract was the first one to exceed the one million contracts open interest , i.e. number of contracts outstanding . |
| 8 | An SMI index futures contract was introduced in November 1990 , and is trading healthily . |
| 9 | This reading skills course was developed over a four year period at the Faculty of Political Science in Bologna , Italy . |
| 10 | There were also acknowledged strengths , of which the Social Skills course was one . |
| 11 | By contrast , however , a broadly conceived information skills course was presented as essential for topic work rather than as a facilitator of the separate work of subject departments . |
| 12 | As a direct result of these projects discussions were held with management level representatives of a large number of local companies , ranging from a multi-national electronics firm to a local laundry service . |
| 13 | The Straits Times index was 3.28 points easier at 1,404.98 . |
| 14 | This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists . |
| 15 | Within weeks Combined Operations headquarters were to take on a new vitality . |
| 16 | In administrative and skilled worker groups support was 50 per-cent . |
| 17 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 18 | Within minutes Aldridge was back with Number 4 . |
| 19 | In the EC member states agriculture was heavily subsidized through the common agricultural policy , and their reluctance to contemplate the phasing out of subsidies had deadlocked the GATT talks and threatened a major trade war . |
| 20 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 21 | Two hours play was lost during the morning session and Wales were finally set a target 228 runs in 127 minutes plus 20 overs . |
| 22 | Within minutes money was changing hands and the baby antelope was being placed on blankets on the back seat of the car . |
| 23 | Within forty minutes Mum was ready to leave . |
| 24 | To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event . |
| 25 | One of our students , an IMC rated PPL with around 400m hours experience was asked to plan a let down using the chart below . |
| 26 | After almost two days had been lost to rain , only 85 minutes play was possible as Durham took their overnight 185–7 to 234 all out , with Parker making 109 . |
| 27 | In the USA , until 1986 , all gains and losses on futures contracts were taxed at the long-term rate of tax , while gains and losses on shares held for less than six months were taxed at the higher short-term rate . |
| 28 | For example , on 1 May 1991 three different FT-SE 100 index futures contracts were traded : June 1991 , September 1991 and December 1991 . |
| 29 | If futures contracts were fairly priced , however , this could not happen . |
| 30 | Subsequently in 1985 , option contracts were introduced on the interest rate futures , and in 1986 new futures contracts were introduced in US T-bonds and in the FT-SE 100 . |