Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 3 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 4 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 5 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 6 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 7 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 8 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 9 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 10 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 11 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 12 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 13 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 14 | But they were pegged back in the 41st minute when John Bumstead scored with a diving header from Scott Minto ’ s centre . |
| 15 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 16 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 17 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 18 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 19 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 20 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 21 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 22 | Business corporations such as Unilever , ICI and Shell were operating transnationally in the nineteenth century , but their proliferation and freedom of operation has been greatly facilitated , since the Second World War , by technological development . |
| 23 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 24 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 25 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 26 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 27 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 28 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 29 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 30 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |