Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 2 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 3 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 4 | The special needs of different categories of the physically handicapped were recognized first by individual philanthropists and this led to the establishment of numerous national and local voluntary organizations aiming to promote the welfare of the disabled . |
| 5 | Mel Hawley , chief executive , said the Nissan and Honda contracts in Britain were completed last year , and the Toyota paint shop would be finished by end 1992 . |
| 6 | Fish told me ; ‘ The studios were completed last July and the recording of ‘ Internal Exile ’ , my second solo album , began in the same month . |
| 7 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 8 | Of particular importance for the residential sector was the fact that 75 per cent of the children admitted compulsorily were placed first in some form of residential care , with half of them in observation and assessment centres or in reception homes ( p. 162 ) . |
| 9 | Harvey ( right ) , were placed second in their class and later declared runners up in the championship . |
| 10 | Elsewhere in this issue you will read of the latest Economist survey of Britain 's survey of Britain 's Most Admired Companies in which we were placed third overall ; top in our business sector ; top in quality of management ; and second in our quality of marketing . |
| 11 | Some steel furnaces were placed next to the blast furnaces and some near to tinplate works , which use thin steel sheets which are covered in a veneer of tin . |
| 12 | This led to a further study where rt-PA or placebo were given first either outside the hospital or in the accident and emergency department of the hospital . |
| 13 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 14 | Which is what we were given last year . |
| 15 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 16 | TWO brands of a vaccine given to millions of children were withdrawn last night because it is feared they could cause meningitis . |
| 17 | Strikes by pilots , cabin crew and ground staff , were compounded last winter by unusually persistent fog at under-equipped north Italian tourist airports . |
| 18 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 19 | It were raining last night at what time did we go ? |
| 20 | About 75,000 homes were repossessed last year — putting around 6,000 men , women and children out on the streets every week . |
| 21 | Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault . |
| 22 | THE five surviving Northern Ireland heroes of the Battle of Britain were honoured last night . |
| 23 | As a result , 900,000 more patients were treated last year than in 1979 , and that has resulted in in-patient waiting lists being 21 per cent . |
| 24 | What the one we were using last night ? |
| 25 | Though passages were booked for Macnab and Margaret Joyce , who were to go first while Joyce settled their affairs in London , the tickets were never used . |
| 26 | THE Hampshire County Youth Choir were formed last October to give young people aged 15 to 20 years the opportunity to take part in a higher standard of choral singing than perhaps would be open to them at their schools or colleges . |
| 27 | ‘ I should be a deal happier , ’ Mrs Tillotson protested , ‘ if the master were consulted first . ’ |
| 28 | Dog bone vouchers were stopped last November , and St Petersburg 's 360,000 cats and dogs are trying to survive on scraps from their owners ' tables . |
| 29 | It 's just those lapses ( which were punished last year ) which we ca n't allow to happen . |
| 30 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |