Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] made [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DSS figures for April 1991 to January 1992 show 9,337 applications made to the Social Fund for community care grants , of which 6,929 were refused . |
| 2 | The excavations carried out by Napoleon III in 1860–5 found 134 Roman coins ( the latest of about 54BC ) and 447 coins made by the Celtic tribes of Gaul . |
| 3 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 4 | Neither did he refute the two commitments made by the hon. Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) in respect of pensions and child benefit . |
| 5 | The coup though , out in the main hall , is the set of four of Prospero 's 24 Books made for the controversial Peter Greenaway film which revamps Shakespeare 's The Tempest . |