Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six under-developed fry were observed in a group , separate from the rest of the shoal . |
| 2 | Thus , in the early 1980s , 86% of the non-white population aged under 16 were born in Britain compared with 14% born overseas ; this is the exact reverse of the figures for those over 16 , of whom 14% were born in Britain and 86% overseas ( OPCS , 1986 , p. 20 , Table 4 ) . |
| 3 | Damages of £20,000 were awarded against Granada Television in 1983 for unintentionally defaming a police officer in a " World in Action " programme about police corruption . |
| 4 | Non-personal injury cases involving claims below £20,000 were identified for transfer to the county court and three extra Circuit judges sat in the High Court for three months to take Queen 's Bench cases . |
| 5 | The final straw which induced almost total panic in control was the large proportion of late entries ; about 10% were received before the official closing date , a further 30% before the weekend and nearly 60% on the day . |
| 6 | Another recent attempt to produce an incidence curve using 126 patients who were screen positive for polyps , determined that 10% were detected after 40 years of age . |
| 7 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 8 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
| 9 | Fines of £1,575 , £1,050 and £1,500 were imposed on Leonard and Brett Featherstone and Hammond respectively and each was ordered to pay £150 towards costs . |
| 10 | Fines of £1,575 , £1,050 and £1,500 were imposed on Leonard and Brett Featherstone and Hammond respectively and each was ordered to pay £150 towards costs . |
| 11 | The floor was entirely covered with sheet lead , which was protected from wear by oak slats , and the sides , to a height of 3ft were sheathed with stout zinc sheets . |
| 12 | Fifty four per cent of patients were referred by general practitioners , 43% were tertiary referrals from other consultant surgeons and physicians in England , Wales , and the Channel Islands , and 3% were admitted through the Accident and Emergency Department . |
| 13 | Damages of £8,000 were awarded by a jury against the " Daily Mirror " for that very imputation about Liberace in 1959 . |
| 14 | One computer printout format included incidences of errors and diagnostic information as well as right or wrong codings , but it proved time-consuming for teachers to use and expensive to produce and post , so generally only the simpler right or wrong data were sent to the schools . |
| 15 | Data were analysed for the significance of differences by analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) . |
| 16 | The data were analysed for sex and age in each location ( Table I ) . |
| 17 | These proportions remained unchanged when the data were analysed for sex and for site in both series . |
| 18 | Data were analysed with the statistical program SPSS , version 4.0 ( SPSS , Chicago , Illinois , United States ) . |
| 19 | Data were analysed with the Epi-Info and BMJ Confidence Intervals Analysis statistical packages . |
| 20 | The data were analysed with SPSS/PC+ . |
| 21 | Nominal data were analysed with Fisher 's exact test . |
| 22 | The data were analysed with an Arcus 2 statistical package ( Medical Computing , Aughton , W. Lancs , UK ) . |
| 23 | The differences in transport data were analysed with the Wilcoxon rank test . |
| 24 | In the first method , data were analysed against set criteria for hypoxia and tachycardia . |
| 25 | Data were analysed by comparing observed and synthetic spectra for the 5 bands of HNO 3 in the 866cm -1 to 870cm -1 spectral region , where there are seven well defined manifolds of HNO 3 and an absence of other absorbers . |
| 26 | SaO 2 and pulse rate data were analysed by two methods . |
| 27 | Normally distributed data were analysed by one way analysis of variance or paired t test and abnormally distributed data by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test . |
| 28 | Non-homogenously distributed data were analysed by the Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests . |
| 29 | Data were analysed by the χ 2 test . |
| 30 | Categorical data were analysed by the χ 2 test , and non-parametric continuous data by the Kruskall-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U ( two tailed ) tests . |