Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 2 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 3 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 4 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 7 | Further practical steps were taken following the second amendment to make the SDR ‘ the principal reserve asset ’ : |
| 8 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 9 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 10 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 13 | Revenue was up , expenditure too and some young trees , notably 30 birches and limes were planted between the 12th and 14th , also the ‘ plantation ’ ( now a copse ) between the 14th and 15th , and the bushes behind the 2nd , plus many others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |
| 16 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 17 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 18 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 19 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 22 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 23 | Various global tectonic models were proposed during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century , with most attention being focused on the origin of the major mountain systems of the Earth 's surface . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 26 | Though the duties were reduced throughout the first half of the 19th century , they were not finally abolished until 1861 . |
| 27 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 28 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 30 | Yesterday a Birmingham small claims court ordered Warwickshire , the ground authority , to repay the full admission price to five England supporters who felt cheated after only two balls were bowled on the second day of the first Test . |