Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 24 people died and 300 were injured after a series of tornadoes and storms ripped across Texas , Louisiana , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , Tennessee and Kentucky on Nov. 21-22 . |
| 2 | ALL of the leading Temps who gathered to witness the Earl of Carlisle opening their Institute in Gladstone Street on September 23 1903 were captured by a cameraman . |
| 3 | Those who did go before 1560 were writing about a country which the English wanted to conquer . |
| 4 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 5 | The British in 1979 were poised between a reverence for old historic symbols which had provided order and cohesion over the centuries , and an uneasy awareness that such reverence had become a recipe for immobilism and devotion to the outdated totems of the past . |
| 6 | The four heavily rebuilt cars , 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 were included in a batch sold to the South Metropolitan Company . |
| 7 | Three people died and fourteen were injured after an explosion at a chemical works in West Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Even in Nigeria , Africa 's most densely populated country , with the largest urbanized , literate readership , most of the fifteen daily papers on sale in 1981 were running at a loss . |
| 9 | Journalists and investment analysts attending the preliminary results meetings of Grand Metropolitan ( the international food , drinks and retailing group ) on 3 December 1992 were provided with a plethora of figures . |
| 10 | Profits in 1992 were bolstered by a fall in bad debt provisions to £676 million . |
| 11 | Two people died and 62 were injured in an IRA attack on the 512-bedroom Hilton in 1975 . |
| 12 | Figures 2 and 3 were taken from a series of images from a man ( Fig 2 ) and women ( Fig 3 ) volunteer . |
| 13 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 14 | I would like to point out that the powers under section 21 and schedule 8 of the NHS Act 1977 were converted to a duty by Circular 22/59 ( Ministry of Health ) , updated in circular 19.74 . |
| 15 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 16 | Two people have died and five were injured in a gun attack by loyalists in Ulster |
| 17 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 18 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 19 | Attention has also been drawn to the evidence of continuing peasant unrest even after the mass disturbances of 1905–7 were brought to an end . |
| 20 | The eight were trapped by a roof collapse at 4.30pm on Monday as they worked on a roadway leading to a new face . |
| 21 | The charges arise out of incidents in the town on Thursday when the bodies of two women , one in her fifties and one in her thirties were found in a house . |
| 22 | The Council was generally elected for a six-year term , but the 1990 elections were called after those of 1986 were annulled on a technicality . |
| 23 | Of Kuwait 's total of 935 oil wells , 749 were damaged as a result of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war . |
| 24 | During 1992 three patients with the disease carrying a heterozygous mutation at codon 200 were recorded in a survey of human spongiform encephalopathies by the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale . |
| 25 | Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete . |
| 26 | When the two were placed in an aquarium the association became clear . |
| 27 | The two were bundled into a van and driven to the local beauty spot , Barrow Wake , at Birdlip , which overlooks the city of Gloucester . |
| 28 | The two were greeted with a champagne reception in a VIP lounge and then taken out to board Concorde . |
| 29 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |
| 30 | The other two were targeted by a gunman who stepped from a white Peugeot car at the junction of Castle Street , Millfield . |