Example sentences of "[num] were [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 2 | In all cases , probability values less than 0.05 were taken to indicate significant differences . |
| 3 | Articles 85 and 86 were designed to attack anti-competitive agreements and abusive monopolisation and were not drafted with merger control in mind . |
| 4 | These reactions , first discovered by Fischer and Tropsch in Germany in the 1920s were used to make poor quality petrol during the Second World War . |
| 5 | Of the 40 , nine were appointed to ensure equal representation of Moslems and Christians ; the remainder filled seats left vacant by the death of representatives elected at the last general election in 1972 . |
| 6 | Data from Landsat-1 were used to compare three plant canopy models for extracting plant , soil and shadow reflectance components of cropped fields . |
| 7 | The two were forced to view empty information screens and tour gloomy lounges where passengers waited in the dark . |
| 8 | Five people also had epilepsy , two were suspected of autism , two were thought to have psychiatric disorders and one had phenylketonuria . |
| 9 | After eight weeks , a further four patients eventually underwent surgery for failure to heal , two were lost to follow up , and four were deemed to have resistant ulcers ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 10 | As regards intent , the United Kingdom Government had never concealed the fact that the restrictions introduced by the Act of 1988 were intended to exclude Spanish interests from the United Kingdom fishing industry . |
| 11 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 12 | The evolutionary morphologists of the 1860s were determined to use comparative anatomy and embryology to work out all the crucial relationships needed to reconstruct the tree of life . |