Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 2 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 3 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 4 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 5 | The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal . |
| 6 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 7 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 8 | Three MXY6 canard gliders were built to test the tail-first concept of the Shinden . |
| 9 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 10 | At a conference in The Hague , the Netherlands , on June 18-19 , 1990 , over 120 new European research projects were launched to mark the fifth anniversary of the Eureka programme . |
| 11 | Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network . |