Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 2 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 3 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 4 | The fate of the earlier Halling registers is not known but some of the early entries were copied in the 19th century by Sir Thorn as Colyer Ferguson . |
| 5 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 6 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 7 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 8 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 9 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 10 | The use of recordings of visiting speakers was discussed in the last chapter . |
| 11 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 12 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 14 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 15 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 16 | Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot . |
| 17 | Five Doric capitals and bases were recorded in the nineteenth century , while several re-used blocks were found in 1957 in the foundations of the northwest tower ; these blocks displayed cramp holes unrelated to the adjacent stones , and one at least was an elaborately moulded part of a plinth . |
| 18 | The author of several pamphlets , and an FRS , Bennet kept a political diary from 1806 , now lost , though extracts were published in the nineteenth century and one volume ( for 1821 ) has come to light . |
| 19 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 20 | The score was unchanged and the Yankees were batting in the ninth , and last , inning . |
| 21 | No costs were awarded in the second Guinness trial . |
| 22 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 23 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 24 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 26 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 27 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 28 | Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published . |
| 29 | Originally built in Romanesque style , a Gothic choir and aisles were added in the fourteenth century , making it into a hall church . |
| 30 | If the properties were placed in the next lower band , F , the Council Tax reduces to £1,085 . |