Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final straw which induced almost total panic in control was the large proportion of late entries ; about 10% were received before the official closing date , a further 30% before the weekend and nearly 60% on the day . |
| 2 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
| 3 | A few reindeer were grazing on the sparse tundra . |
| 4 | Data were analysed with the statistical program SPSS , version 4.0 ( SPSS , Chicago , Illinois , United States ) . |
| 5 | In vitro data were analysed by a one way analysis of variance . |
| 6 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
| 7 | This time , the data were obtained in the following way : |
| 8 | Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company . |
| 9 | The data were obtained from the Canadian Hemophilia Registry . |
| 10 | For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group . |
| 11 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 12 | The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier . |
| 13 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
| 14 | The data were collected over a 22 year period during which the frequency of diagnosis of endometriosis increased dramatically , with , for example , the reported incidence at time of laparoscopic sterilisation rising from <5% to 18% . |
| 15 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 16 | Data were collected from a single crystal on beam line X-31 at the EMBL outstation at Hamburg using the image plate scanner and were processed using MOSFLM ( Imperial College , London ) and the CCP4 program suite ( Daresbury , UK ) . |
| 17 | Data were collected from the relevant site departments , transcribed onto coding forms and sent to Dartford for punching onto paper tape . |
| 18 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
| 19 | On three occasions , 1976 , 1980 and 1984 , data were gathered from a random sample of young people who left school in those years . |
| 20 | The HDI data excluded several non-UN countries , and gave a single value for the ex-Soviet Union ( for GNP , separate data were used for the latter ) . |
| 21 | All the data were used by the simulated annealing algorithm , whilst the filtering algorithm filtered out those probes without a vertical black line ( as potentially repetitive ) , and the grey clones ( as potentially coligated ) . |
| 22 | The data were pooled from the 12 minirhizotrons in each forest . |
| 23 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 24 | The hybridisation data were held in a flat file data base , with C programs reponsible for data management and collation . |
| 25 | The data were processed with the Seismic Kernel System ( SKS ) seismic package . |
| 26 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 27 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 28 | Eastern Airlines , the sixth-largest airline in the USA , also registered for Chapter 11 protection on Jan. 18 , and all its aircraft were grounded pending a possible sale . |
| 29 | Reportedly only 14 aircraft were sold during the two-day event . |
| 30 | Reportedly a total of only 14 aircraft were sold over the two day event , and those that actually sold realised low prices , making it somewhat of a buyer 's market . |