Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status .
2 Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage .
3 Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect .
4 The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal .
5 Three MXY6 canard gliders were built to test the tail-first concept of the Shinden .
6 A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 .
7 At a conference in The Hague , the Netherlands , on June 18-19 , 1990 , over 120 new European research projects were launched to mark the fifth anniversary of the Eureka programme .
8 The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well .
9 Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network .
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