Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classes were held there from 20th January 1916 , and the formal opening ceremony was performed on Saturday , 29th January , by Colonel George Dixon , Chairman of the Cheshire County Council . |
| 2 | Decor materials and techniques were discussed fully in last month 's PFK . |
| 3 | The major problems included the need to account for the differences in the schools ' intakes , deciding which groups of pupils were included in the result statistics ( e.g. whether sixth form pupils taking ‘ O ’ levels were included along with 5th formers ) , and the problem , for outsiders such as Gray , of getting hold of all the relevant statistics . |
| 4 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 5 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |