Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous defeat by the United States came in 1950 when a powerful England side were beaten 1–0 in Bela Horizonte , Brazil . |
| 2 | They also broke Gloucester 's hearts , because with rather less than five minutes of extra time to go , the home side were leading 18–15 . |
| 3 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 4 | The devaluation of the inti for the month of October was restricted to 6 per cent overall ; exporters were to receive 10 per cent of the value of their exports in foreign currency and 45 per cent in freely redeemable US dollar certificates , while the remaining 45 per cent would be paid in intis at the single exchange market rate ; import restrictions were eased ; to protect the silver sector against the continuing slump in prices since 1989 on the world market , the Central Reserve Bank was to buy silver at 5 per cent over the current market price ; fuel prices would rise by only 5 per cent in October , and public utility rates by less than the percentage rise in salaries , which themselves would be increased in accordance with inflation . |
| 5 | In the LCFA Intermediate Cupo , Fibrecan hammered luckless Lidell Avenue 15-0 and Buck I'Th Vine were beaten 13-1 by St. Alphonsus . |
| 6 | Later in the day , Oslo were beaten 19-2 by the Scots . |
| 7 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 8 | Foreigners were allowed 100 per cent ownership of enterprises and certain tax exemptions under a foreign investment law passed in 1990 , and by September 1991 43 joint enterprises had been set up . |
| 9 | Two fire fighters were killed ten days ago in the fire which gutted most of the factory . |
| 10 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 12 | In October 1925 Arsenal were defeated 7–0 at Newcastle . |
| 13 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 14 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 15 | When Heatley went to Peoria , culture methods were yielding 2 U ml&sup/minus1 ; ; with these changes and new mutants of the mould , yields up to 900 U ml&sup/minus1 ; were obtained . |
| 16 | Trains out of Waverley were running fifteen minutes late by the time she got there , but she did n't care . |
| 17 | Nearest rivals Internazionale lost 3-1 to a sparkling Lazio — without the injured Paul Gascoigne , while Juventus were beaten 2-1 at Foggia . |
| 18 | All subjects were given 1 l of tap water before imaging , the water acting as a positive — that is , bright , contrast medium , to outline the gut lumen without affecting motility state . |
| 19 | Subjects were retested one month later . |
| 20 | More recently , in 1980 , Swedish researchers found , in a 25-year-old adult weighing 54 kg , that blood ionic fluoride levels of just over 1 ppm were reached 30 minutes after gel treatment ( Journal of Dental Research , vol 59 p 1067 ) . |
| 21 | After excluding children for whom data on the continuous variables were missing 5573 ( 63.3% ) were available for analysis of respiratory illness by birth weight and duration of pregnancy . |
| 22 | In 1292 , the Habsburgs were making one of their periodic assaults on the turbulent Swiss . |
| 23 | Two down going into the seventh , the Scots were lying four but Ferland played two perfect draws round guards . |
| 24 | In the second experiment , which lasted 17 days , animals were given three diets that differed in the molecular form of the nitrogen supply — that is , proteins or peptides . |
| 25 | The animals were anaesthetised one hour after ethanol administration to allow measurement of gastric blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry ( Laserflo , model BPM 403A , Vasamedics Inc , St Paul , MN ) as described previously . |
| 26 | The animals were anaesthetised three hours later and gastric blood flow and area of gastric lesions were measured as previously described . |
| 27 | However , even allowing for the fact that the population and satellite data were collected 13 years apart , the differences are greater than we would have liked . |
| 28 | Sporting Lisbon were smashed 5–0 . |
| 29 | Here , as in the pollution debates over the hazards of sewage or acidification of lakes , the Commission and its supporters were applying one line of reasoning whereas environmentalists and scientists in other countries were applying another . |
| 30 | SOUTHPORT were beaten 3-2 by Wrexham in an FA Cup replay at the Racecourse on November 7 , but only had themselves to blame . |