Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 2 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 3 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 4 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 5 | The sun now had a golden haze around it and the fields , the grass standing high and lush , were enjoying one last flurry of life before the frosts . |
| 6 | And so , now , just ten days after her return from Loch Lomond , all the garments and accessories were miraculously ready , and Shiona and her number two were enjoying one of their celebratory dinners . |
| 7 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 8 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news . |
| 9 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 10 | Tiny Tabard 's hopes were dashed after taking a 7–0 lead as they were mauled 50–13 by mighty Northampton . |
| 11 | From then on , as they were repainted in the new red livery , the remainder were renumbered 1–20 , in the reverse order of their old numbers . |
| 12 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 13 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 14 | In Victoria Street Lytle 's and McCausland 's warehouses were completed two years before Ewart 's . |
| 15 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 16 | Nests were checked 2–6 times a week . |
| 17 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 18 | The 17 trucks were halted 25 miles short of the town of Tuzla while UN aides negotiated for a path to be cleared of mines . |
| 19 | At parties occasionally we will recall the full horror of the event in one of those conversations which goes something like : ‘ You were delayed six hours and then had to be diverted to a branch line 50 miles out of your way on a train that had no heating and no buffet . |
| 20 | The men were paid a rate depending upon the nature of the ground and were producing 2½ tons a week , giving a yield of 2–3 cwt. of metal in the ton but none more than 3 . |
| 21 | By 1985 the five network companies were producing 45.5 per cent of the ITV programmes , amounting to more than 40 peak or near-peak hours a week . |
| 22 | In the 1890s Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham were producing thirty-five designs , of which the 1½-inch Canadian elm ‘ Manilla ’ , at £3 15s. was the most imaginative . |
| 23 | He and the club 's solicitor and director , Maurice Watkins , sat either side of Edwards while on the flanks were placed two more lawyers , one representing Knighton 's take-over firm , MK Trafford Holdings , and the other , United 's merchant bank , Ansbacher . |
| 24 | BRIAN Clough 's woes continued last night when Nottingham Forest were crushed 2-0 by Derby in a testimonial for former goalkeeper Steve Sutton . |
| 25 | They lost to Eastern Ontario 35–8 , tied Toronto Scottish 11–11 , lost again to Balmy Beach 25–8 and then were crushed 57–3 by the Ontario XV that had earlier dispatched Heriot 's 33–0 . |
| 26 | All patients were given 0.625 mg daily of oral conjugated oestrogen ( Premarin , Wyeth ) . |
| 27 | Campbell pointed out that London policemen worked only eight hours each day and were given one day off each week . |
| 28 | Then , weary but triumphant , with sufficient guards set and scouting parties out to ensure that no possible rallying of the enemy endangered them , the victors were given one final item of news before they couched down to sleep . |
| 29 | They were given one day to decide . |
| 30 | But if , instead of jumping you walked , one step at a time , and were given one small coin as a reward every time you happened to take a step in the right direction , you would reach the scorpion in a very short time . |