Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baseline measurements of blood pressure and oxygen saturation were recorded on two occasions two minutes apart . |
| 2 | Further samples of blood were obtained after 2–3 weeks from donors Z 16 and Z 1 . |
| 3 | As the quotation shows , the two types of blood were perceived as two sides of the same coin : on the one side positive male blood and on the other negative female blood . |
| 4 | Briefly , 102 ml venous blood were taken into 18 ml of acid-citrate-dextrose . |
| 5 | Anorectal manometry and sphincter electromyography were performed in 23 patients with complete supraconal traumatic spinal injuries and 30 age and sex matched control subjects . |
| 6 | Measurements of electrical conductivity and susceptibility were made at 20 frequencies per decade from 5Hz to 20MHz on samples saturated with 0.5M aqueous NaCl solution with a two-electrode system . |
| 7 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 8 | Marshall , who gives these facts in his Rural Economy of Norfolk , supposes that three hundred acres of heathland were divided into thirty fields of ten acres each . |
| 9 | We were told that in 1988 , when life sentences for murder were passed in 150 cases , only 10 minimum recommendations were made . |
| 10 | Charges of criminal conspiracy , corruption , abuse of official position by public servants , cheating , criminal breach of trust and forgery were filed against 14 persons and companies . |
| 11 | Forward scouts reported that the enemy were massing at two points ahead , at their large camp below the castle hill and also nearer the town , but that the Yair ford itself was not guarded . |
| 12 | Leonid I. Ponomarev then applied the resonance theory to the case of deuterium — tritium ( ‘ dt ’ ) fusion and discovered that in a complicated molecule where two deuterons and one triton were encircled by two electrons and one muon the theory predicted that the fusion rate leapt enormously relative to what had been expected from the earlier simple theories . |
| 13 | Samples from each specimen of bowel were taken at 5–10 cm intervals . |
| 14 | Pancreatic enzyme synthesis , turnover , and secretion were measured in 10 patients in clinical remission who had had one or more ( one to six ) attacks of acute alcoholic pancreatitis . |
| 15 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 16 | From 1978 to 1981 the heaviest rates of manufacturing job loss were found in two types of area in the North : metropolitan areas and steel-making counties ( Figure 5.3A ) . |
| 17 | For instance access to the gall bladder was lost in one patient , a well described problem and the absence of a safety guide wire meant that greater care with the track had to be exercised . |
| 18 | After fixation , each biopsy was divided into two halves . |
| 19 | The auction was launched by eleven works of recent art consigned by Raymond Learsy , eight of which found buyers . |
| 20 | The British Tinnitus Association was formed on 9 July 1979 . |
| 21 | The Automobile Association was established on 26 June 1905 , a few months after Charles Jarrott and William Letts had set up a warning system to advise motorists of police speed traps on some sections of the London to Brighton road . |
| 22 | Its membership of the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association was suspended on 16 April 1992/ |
| 23 | The 6ft 5ins former Irish forward was attacked by two men wielding iron bars near Heuston railway station last night . |
| 24 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 25 | We are told that the main reason given was the weakening of squadrons by withdrawing the best crews , Nevertheless after much procrastination , all of which is still clouded in the veil of " security " , the Pathfinder Force was formed on 15 August 1942 and its first Commandant was Gp Capt D.C.T. Bennett DSO ( later AVM , CB , CBE , DSO ) who was officially appointed on 5 July — the master airman extraordinary and navigator par excellence . |
| 26 | Forward speed was estimated at 40–50 kt . |
| 27 | Following a general strike and calls for his resignation , the President was arrested on 26 March by fellow army officers . |
| 28 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 29 | Government troops on Jan. 21 claimed to have overrun a base used by ethnic Mon guerrillas near Bokpyin township in the south-east ; the death toll was given as 10 rebels and one government soldier . |
| 30 | A toxic hepatitis was suspected and the amiodarone was stopped after 24 hours . |