Example sentences of "of [noun pl] were [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than two thirds of mutations were located in the 5' half of the last exon , and over 90% resulted in truncation of the APC gene product . |
| 2 | Hundreds of journalists were tried in the purges — ‘ l'épuration ’ — that followed the Liberation : more perhaps than any other profession , journalists paid the price of collaboration . |
| 3 | A number of barges were hidden in the trees along the lakeside and Mandeville and Santerre ordered these to be brought together . |
| 4 | Additionally , a slightly higher proportion of blacks were sentenced in adult rather than juvenile magistrates courts and of these a higher proportion of blacks were tried in the crown courts . |
| 5 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 6 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 7 | Groups of Palestinians were waiting in the area in the hope of being hired for a day 's casual labour . |
| 8 | A number of troops were stationed in the town , some in the grounds of the workhouse , and others at the Bedford Infirmary , and in January 1915 the master 's attention was called to the need to disinfect military blankets and clothing , and to the provision of baths for verminous soldiers . |
| 9 | However a considerable number of advances were made in the framework of small instrumented areas and there is no immediately obvious alternative to the approach when large numbers of empirical values are required . |
| 10 | Although a number of Directives were adopted in the 1970s on various aspects of employees ' rights , it is the passage of the Single European Act which has given new impetus to the evolution of EC social policies . |
| 11 | Scores of businesses were damaged in the 1,000lb blast and at least 12 buildings , some more than 100 years old , may have to be demolished . |
| 12 | The amounts of PEGs were determined in the extracted samples by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography . |
| 13 | Many people today can remember well when the bodies of relations were kept in the front room until the funeral , to be visited by family and friends if they wished , for a last goodbye . |
| 14 | Previous reports , however , indicate that the effects of cytokines were tested in the monoclonal antibody mediated cellular cytotoxicity ( monoclonal ADCC ) system . |
| 15 | A number of suggestions were outlined in the paper , many of which were formalized in the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 . |
| 16 | Thousands of parachutes were destroyed in the fire which caused damage put at twenty million pounds . |
| 17 | In the next annual , all first-class scores were published for the first time ; in 1867 the convention began of including the births and deaths of cricketers ; and in 1870 descriptions of matches were contained in the almanack . |
| 18 | Only 12 types of links were used in the semantic net that supported the final draft of the Hypertext book . |
| 19 | The major problems included the need to account for the differences in the schools ' intakes , deciding which groups of pupils were included in the result statistics ( e.g. whether sixth form pupils taking ‘ O ’ levels were included along with 5th formers ) , and the problem , for outsiders such as Gray , of getting hold of all the relevant statistics . |
| 20 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 21 | A row of men were praying in the shade of the lorry . |
| 22 | The principles of logarithms were discovered in the seventeenth century ; they gave a tremendous technical spur to navigation , astronomy and to the growing commercial sector , facilitating tedious calculations , like nineteen months ' interest at an annual rate of 2.79 per cent . |
| 23 | The house was re-roofed and the interior gradually restored ; lots of roses were planted in the formal gardens ; and from 1960 Mrs Burke began , with two cheap mares , to establish a highly successful stud farm . |
| 24 | A number of celebrities were appearing in the Cadbury 's sponsored pantomimes around the country and supporting the Save The Children fund raising activities . |