Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shares were divided among three groups of managers — the 50 most senior , some 250 middle managers and the remaining 700 who were running large contracts , or a group of units . |
| 2 | In 1981-82 , 3,800 tonnes were imported , and by 1987-88 we were importing 80,000 tonnes , thereby almost becoming one of the major toxic dustbins of the world . |
| 3 | By late 1874 it was producing various types of coloured printing papers , as well as newsprint , on a 54-inch machine . |
| 4 | At Canton his early success , as commercial agent for opium merchants in India , led to his association with Magniac & Company , and by 1826 he was controlling that firm 's Canton operations . |
| 5 | But by 1979 he was selling enough stock from his Mum 's garden shed to move into the Wanneroo premises . |
| 6 | By September 1940 he was taking British survival for granted and predicting American intervention . |
| 7 | From 1969 it was awarding honorary degrees . |
| 8 | The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine . |
| 9 | By July 1909 he was making successful flights of several miles , and in August was awarded the Aeronautical Society 's silver medal . |
| 10 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 11 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 12 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 13 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 14 | The US balance of payments capital account deficit in the early 1960s which was undermining foreign confidence in the dollar , encouraged the US authorities to restrict overseas lending by resident US banks and the domestic financing of direct investment ( multinational plants ) abroad . |
| 15 | 17032 married white women aged 25–39 years at entry during 1968–74 who were taking oral contraceptives or using an intrauterine device or diaphragm . |
| 16 | By the 1980s they were achieving 400-day weights of more than 500kg with bulls , 375kg with steers and 320kg with heifers and the Lincoln Red is now Britain 's largest traditional beef breed with a capacity for rapid live-weight gains and early maturity . |
| 17 | By 1915 he was advising one commentator ‘ to treat my verse … as my essential writings , & my prose as my accidental ’ . |
| 18 | Beginning with 8 apprentice girls and three journeymen tutors , by 1863 it was employing 14 women . |