Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were echoed last night by PC Hall 's boss , Chief Insp Peyer Harrison , of Redcar Police . |
| 2 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 3 | The telephone threats against three Sunrise DJs were made last Monday night . |
| 4 | Fearing that he might end up excluded , whatever steps were taken next , Edward managed next morning to get a memo through to ‘ C' 's personal assistant , with a promise that it would end up on his desk . |
| 5 | The first steps were taken last week when an experiment to monitor ‘ machine-readable passports ’ ( MRPs ) was launched at Heathrow airport . |
| 6 | For this reason additional funds were voted last year for the city . |
| 7 | Pubs , houses and shops were flooded last night when torrential rain lashed parts of North Wales . |
| 8 | Only 124,342 cars were sold last month — the lowest February figure since 1982 says the SMMT . |
| 9 | Four per cent fewer cars were sold last month than in September last year . |
| 10 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 11 | ROADS will remain freezing , with ice and fog causing dangerous conditions throughout the holiday , drivers were warned last night . |
| 12 | About 75,000 homes were repossessed last year — putting around 6,000 men , women and children out on the streets every week . |
| 13 | The New Orleans sequences were filmed first , even before Fonda , Hopper and screenwriter Terry Southern had finished writing . |
| 14 | The firm therefore used its legal right to seek reappointment by a letter to shareholders claiming that when the losses were identified last August , audit work for the year ( including enquiries into the London dealing operation ) was still in progress . |
| 15 | Around 250 responses were received last year commenting on the group 's initial consultation paper , and 140 of them found fault . |
| 16 | Dog bone vouchers were stopped last November , and St Petersburg 's 360,000 cats and dogs are trying to survive on scraps from their owners ' tables . |
| 17 | Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners . |
| 18 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 19 | He was confident that he , in the town , could resist any efforts of Dunbar in the castle to prevail against them — that is , providing the castle 's cannon and mangonels were removed first and transferred to the town 's walls and bastions , particularly to the port area . |
| 20 | ANY repeat of yesterday 's 24-hour strike over pit closures would consign Britain 's coal industry ‘ to history ’ , miners were warned last night . |
| 21 | A few local lines were built first , and then a larger company stepped in with a grand strategy to create a trunk route and compete for valuable traffic . |
| 22 | On behalf of the Opposition , I join with him in extending sympathy to the families whose lives were shattered last Friday by the IRA 's vicious murder campaign . |
| 23 | The leisure centre has been at the centre of a compensation wrangle since serious building defects were discovered last year . |
| 24 | * Consumption of water in 50,000 homes on the Isle of Wight has fallen by 10 per cent since water meters were introduced last year . |
| 25 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 26 | But Hoyland , also NorthEast Counties secretary , explained the situation when the finals were held last week . |
| 27 | The dogs were impounded last December . |
| 28 | SUFFERING from hangovers after their intoxicating victory on Saturday night , Hungarian reformers and their temporary allies were split last night on the question of where the new Socialist Party should pick up the pieces , as a marginal hardline faction announced the foundation of the Hungarian Communist Party . |
| 29 | These advances were celebrated last month in Berlin in what will surely be seen as a landmark conference on the femtosecond chemistry . |
| 30 | ‘ England 's army of thugs were told last night : ‘ cause any aggro and we 'll jail you and throw away the key ’ ’ it was reported yesterday in The One That Most Of Them Read . |