Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [conj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty two patients were given 5-ASA and 31 bismuth enemas . |
| 2 | Twenty soldiers were reported injured and 102 people were arrested . |
| 3 | At least two people were reported killed and 200 others arrested . |
| 4 | The villages of Yater and Kafra were seized by Israeli troops , and buildings were blown up and searched for rockets ; 25 Lebanese and two Israelis were reported killed and four members of the Fijian contingent of UNIFIL were wounded , two of them seriously . |
| 5 | Seven people were reported killed and 12 others injured on Oct. 27 during clashes at Dhaka University between rival student groups . |
| 6 | The agreement was placed in doubt by a renewed contra offensive on March 24 during which 12 Sandinista soldiers were reported killed and 12 people wounded near San Sebastian de Yalí , approximately 145 km from Managua . |
| 7 | On March 8 , 1990 , at least six people were reported wounded and 20 others arrested in continued disturbances in Rosario [ for looting in February see p. 37244 ] , 300 km north-west of Buenos Aires , as police clashed with slum dwellers who had blocked a highway in an attempt to loot vehicles . |
| 8 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 9 | Most estimates were exceeded three or four times , while a handful of the strongest colours and the rarest patterns and shapes fetched 10 times over estimate . |
| 10 | Now , plays in that stage were the things that were performed two or three times then forgotten , here is Johnson saying , no , I 'm gon na write down all my plays , I 'm gon na publish them , you 're gon na read them you 're gon na read them as if they were learned things . |
| 11 | When the hon. Member for Newham , North-East and I were buying one or two shirts in Sri Lanka , we must have been conscious that we were supporting the industry of the developing world , and rightly so . |
| 12 | ‘ You can imagine the thoughts we were having knowing that one bomb had goine off and three more were likely to explode . |
| 13 | Subjects who remained healthy ( controls ) were retested two and three months after recruitment . |
| 14 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 15 | Governments seem not to have attempted to stimulate new ideas to guide the country to solutions , but have merely implemented outdated principles , the broad bases of which were devised 50 or 100 years ago , varying slightly with political emphasis as to where the Inland Revenue collections should fall . |
| 16 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 17 | Groups of indomethacin treated rats were killed three or six hours after administration of indomethacin . |
| 18 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 19 | Dr Newman was seeing five or six people each surgery with the same symptoms , and ‘ the pharmacist reported a flood of people asking for remedies ’ . |
| 20 | While in hospital , in order to stem the agonising pain , he was given three or four shots of Demerol a day . |
| 21 | One soldier was reported killed and two others wounded during an attack on the military barracks at the coastal town of Tadjoura on the night of Jan. 8-9 , in what the government claimed was the start of an attempted coup . |
| 22 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
| 23 | The inhibitory effect of TPA was the same whether it was added 30 or 10 minutes before challenge with histamine at 20°C , but TPA was ineffective if added at the same time as histamine ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 24 | What is more , it was in the midst of Beaufort Hunt country and the Prince was hunting two or three times a week during the season . |
| 25 | Her research is meticulous , she has some very interesting new sources ( notably Venetia 's letters to Montagu at a time when Asquith was writing three or four times a day to her , but subsequently destroying her replies to these letters ) , and she mostly writes sensitively . |
| 26 | When urethane was replaced by a longacting barbiturate anaesthetic , phenobarbital , progressing restitution and repair of the ethanol damaged gastric mucosa was seen one and three hours after ethanol . |
| 27 | The first two of these patients were advised to undergo cholecystectomy which was done two and 10 weeks later and the remainder have been followed to determine outcome . |
| 28 | On Feb. 21 , 1990 , a Zambian fisherman was shot dead and two others were wounded by Zaïrean soldiers while fishing in the Luapula river on the common border ; Zaïre claimed that the Zambians had strayed into its territory . |
| 29 | A man was shot dead and three others injured when gunmen fired as they arrived for work in East Belfast . |
| 30 | , Richard ( 1633–1685 ) , farmer , patentee , and pamphleteer , was baptized 4 or 14 May 1633 , the eldest son of Gregory Haines , yeoman farmer of Shere in Surrey and Sullington in Sussex , and his wife Elizabeth Pollard . |