Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 2 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 3 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 4 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 5 | If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century , other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps . |
| 6 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 7 | What restrictions had been imposed were largely removed in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 9 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 10 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 11 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 12 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 13 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 14 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 15 | The foundations of the colonial era , during which white European nations dominated vast areas of Asia , Africa and Latin America , were fatally undermined for the first time during the turbulent second decade of the twentieth century . |
| 16 | The paradoxes of our story are nowhere writ so large as in Rome ; the basilicas of San Clemente and Santa Maria in Trastevere were totally rebuilt in the twelfth century — and yet they perfectly express the art and architecture of the fourth century — as perfectly as any Gothic building of the nineteenth century expresses the thirteenth , or fourteenth . |
| 17 | Hereford were further rocked in the 52nd minute when player-coach Greg Downs was sent off for a professional foul on striker Mickey Spencer . |
| 18 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 19 | At the 1970 Annual General Meeting as said above , rumblings of discontent about the relative rights and status of bondholders were formally voiced for the first time . |
| 20 | His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face . |
| 21 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 22 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 23 | The new date for the first round had been announced on Feb. 4 , when new provisional dates were also given for the second round ( March 8 ) and the two rounds of the presidential elections ( March 22 and April 5 ) . |
| 24 | Tailored awards , designed to meet the specific needs of particular organisations and employers , were also offered for the first time , attracting over 500 candidates . |
| 25 | Respondents who indicated that ‘ all senior staff ’ or all ‘ section heads ’ or all ‘ supervisory staff ’ have training responsibilities , but who did not specify any individuals as having a co-ordinating role , or spending at least one-quarter of their time on training , were also included in the second group . |
| 26 | Most of the pupils participating were in the fourth year , but some third years were also included in the last round of testing . |
| 27 | They were also allowed for the first time to subsidize denominational primary schools . |
| 28 | Meetings were also held during the first half of 1989 between senior PLO officials and officials from France , Spain and the United Kingdom , culminating in Arafat 's talks with President Mitterrand of France in May 1989 , after which the PLO leader said that the PLO 's National Charter was " obsolete " and " null and void " [ see p. 36669 ] . |
| 29 | Both the new version of the Programme and a revised set of party rules , which were also approved at the 27th Congress , included a reference to ‘ developed socialism ’ . |
| 30 | Elaborately and exactly carved to represent towers with as many as thirteen storeys , these monoliths were probably erected in the third and fourth centuries AD . |