Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This creative work of art was produced by May Bolton , a member of the Hems Knitting Club , , to celebrate the 100th meeting of their club which was started nine years ago . |
| 2 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 3 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 4 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 5 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 6 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 7 | A leading City analyst described the move as ‘ very sensible — just the thing to kill off all the rumours about a convertible issue we were hearing six weeks ago ’ . |
| 8 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 9 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 10 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 11 | At one venue we were having two conferences three months apart . |
| 12 | Thus began the French phase of the Vietnam conflict which was to last eight years . |
| 13 | The person who was putting one step in front of the other across the field to the lane was not me , somehow . |
| 14 | Like other Vietnamese of his day he was given two names ; his first , ‘ sacred ’ name bestowed at birth was Nguyen Van Coong ( modification of Cung and meaning ‘ respectful ’ ) . |
| 15 | Maximilian was to marry twice , and by his second wife he was to have ten children . |
| 16 | The mine itself was attacked one week later . |
| 17 | Ten minutes later he saw a woman who was carrying three plates of meat and potatoes . |
| 18 | Members of the special constabulary and traffic wardens had been staffing telephones to deal with the ‘ tremendous ’ response from the public : every hour they were taking 150 calls . |
| 19 | At 7pm he telephoned his brother-in-law Paul Caddick , a police sergeant , and when he arrived , after eventually finding the key to the garage door under a mat , he discovered Paula 's body hanging from a rope which was wrapped four times around a beam . |
| 20 | The Police have shot dead an armed man who was holding two women hostage at a flat in South London . |
| 21 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 22 | On his seasonal debut he was beaten six lengths by the very fit Cruising Altitude . |
| 23 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 24 | The Norwood Report which was published ten days later , and ( somewhat improperly ) enjoyed the status of an official document , elaborated a justification of this manner of classification in terms of distinct styles of mind and temperament . |
| 25 | Diana asked the maid who was carrying two Louis Vuitton suitcases with the ‘ S ’ initial to her car . |
| 26 | The press release which was dated 31 October 1990 summarised the effect of the intervention notice , and contained the following passage : |
| 27 | The results were momentous ; a British force landed by itself , defeated the nationalists and began an occupation which was to last seventy years . |
| 28 | Then , as his eyes fell to the way she was cradling one hand in the other , he added , frowning , ‘ You 're hurt . ’ |
| 29 | This was the patient who was studied 29 months after his most recent acute attack . |
| 30 | On a holiday trip last year we were averaging 40 mpg on cheap French diesel fuel ( another bonus point for the diesel if you like to take your car abroad ) in the superbly comfortable big Citroen . |