Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] to the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) .
2 Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off .
3 All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity .
4 Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast .
5 However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 .
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