Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | In the LCFA Intermediate Cupo , Fibrecan hammered luckless Lidell Avenue 15-0 and Buck I'Th Vine were beaten 13-1 by St. Alphonsus . |
| 4 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 5 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 6 | The Welsh club were leading 2-1 when the original tie at St James Park was abandoned following floodlight failure five minutes from time . |
| 7 | A biopsy was taken 8 cm from the anal margin on the anterior rectal wall ; these were subsequently examined histologically to assess inflammatory activity , which was graded in a standard manner ( table I ) . |
| 8 | The auction was oversubscribed 4.6 times . |
| 9 | A woman whose wedding ring was stolen eight years ago has got it back . |
| 10 | Investment was allocated 186,000 million francs CFA , and administrative costs 364,000 million francs CFA . |
| 11 | Hopper , who plays bad guy Koopa , storms : ‘ The movie was re-written six times before we even started — now it 's re-written every day . ’ |
| 12 | The result was to see 450 previously long term unemployed people move into jobs with training — in almost all cases to vocational qualification Level II or above . |
| 13 | He saw the possibilities , contacted the manufacturers with the help of the BBC , and as a result was given two sets of the equipment . |
| 14 | The DJ was spinning one of his favourite high-tempo , high-energy discs — a funky little number if there ever was one . |
| 15 | ‘ The club was struggling 18 months later and players were in a cushy position . |
| 16 | Not since the Jockey Club was founded 243 years ago has such radical racing reform been in the air and today is also the threshold of a new era which begins with Britain 's betting shops next Thursday . |
| 17 | It used to be assumed that the barbarians were settled according to the Roman practice of billeting , whereby a soldier was given one-third of a house . |
| 18 | The local support groups and befriending schemes that MIND was running two years ago are expanding all the time , and a new advocacy service to help people with mental health problems deal with lawyers , the courts , doctors , and other professionals is taking off . |
| 19 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 20 | There are 14 people in Documentation and the department was established seven years ago when the old Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities merged to become the National Museums of Scotland . |
| 21 | Fleischmann and Pons , who did not realise that they had measured their neutron signal incorrectly , thought that their cell was producing 10 000 neutrons per cm 3 of palladium each second ( in fact the totality of neutrons from cosmic rays , from the concrete in the laboratory , from radon and other gases seeping through the air vents may have been responsible for almost all of these and the fusion neutrons , if there were any , were far fewer ) , and so Jones ' data did n't appear very impressive . |
| 22 | By 1986/7 the Urban Programme was supporting 1,380 starter units and 400 business starts in enterprise workshops . |
| 23 | Even in a country like India , Test cricket no longer generates massive appeal , and on the last full tour there — by the West Indies — a 12-match international programme was split 8-4 in favour of the instant thrill . |
| 24 | Fierce criticism of the mathematical model ( the Rasch model ) on which the testing programme was founded 1979 ) encouraged the DES to begin looking elsewhere for a thermometer to take the temperature of the education system ; the benchmarks mentioned earlier may be the new thermometer ( Chapter 4 considers these criticisms of the APU ) . |
| 25 | The twice-weekly programme was founded 15 years ago by Frank Delaney . |
| 26 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 27 | CCG 'S RELENTLESS pursuit of quality has been a vital factor in winning valuable contracts since the quality programme was launched 18 months ago . |
| 28 | When the BES programme was started ten years ago , it aimed to provide tax incentives for entrepreneurs willing to take the risk of investing over five years in new small businesses . |
| 29 | The co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's Great Lakes project also claimed that , in focusing on 17 named chemicals , the programme was ignoring thousands of others which pour into the Lakes . |
| 30 | The British chapter was founded three years ago , and has made its presence felt in various ways , although they emphasise that ‘ We 're terribly shy and retiring — we 'd hate to think anyone felt we like drawing attention to ourselves . ’ |