Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [det] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patten proposed that all 230 district and urban council seats be directly elected in 1995 ; currently , a third of the seats were appointed . |
| 2 | And we found that all five of these sorts of experiences were expressed much more by the employed people we interviewed than by the unemployed people . |
| 3 | Upon opening food bags found that all 3,000 of the trip 's bagels were soaked . |
| 4 | Later the bomb disposal squad found that all three bombs were duds ! ’ |
| 5 | We found that all three glutathione S-transferases tested were present in colonic epithelium and this is consistent with the findings of Howie et al ; it contrasts , however , with the results of Hayes et al , who identified glutathione S-transferase π and µ and did not detect glutathione S-transferase α in normal colon using an immunoperoxidase staining procedure . |
| 6 | The 1976 English House Condition Survey found that some 28 per cent of all unfit dwellings in England but only 23 per cent of total stock were in rural areas , defined to include settlements of up to 1,000 dwellings . |
| 7 | These trends are also confirmed in the Guardian 's ‘ People At Work Survey ’ which found that some 49 per cent of those with a GCE/CSE qualification would consider moving to take up their next job , 59 per cent of those with a first degree and 74 per cent of those with a doctorate would do so . |
| 8 | The experiment found that some 25 per cent of lead in the bodies of Turin residents came from petrol . |
| 9 | In our feasibility study , we found that these two types were both represented in the samples of social work offered to us as examples of secondary prevention , and a distinction between them made sense to the practitioners . |
| 10 | David Kewley reported that all five divisions ( children 's books , educational books , magazines , book clubs and book fairs ) produced increases ‘ significantly above inflation ’ . |
| 11 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 12 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 13 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 14 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |
| 15 | On Jan. 30 the Agence France-Presse news agency reported that some 20 Moslem clerics had been arrested in recent weeks and that a 40-year-old preacher had been sacked and condemned to 80 lashes in December after he had used his Friday sermon to insult the leaders of a Saudi women 's association . |
| 16 | Mr Mackie agreed that all three men had been quite happy to have the injection administered by Murray and that he had also consented whenever Murray had injected him with drugs . |
| 17 | The tribunal ruled that all three women were entitled to redundancy pay . |
| 18 | Analysis of social contacts between the index case , patient E7 , and patients E8–E11 revealed that all 5 patients lived in East Fife , an area north of Edinburgh , and that all were regular attenders at a weekly fitness class held in a local school ( figure 2 ) . |
| 19 | A count at one meeting revealed that all twenty-seven people present were Guardian readers , and it was obvious that many of them knew little about popular papers . |
| 20 | Registration records revealed that some 70 per cent of the guests came from south-east England . |
| 21 | In April a Sejm-appointed commission investigating the assets of the former PUWP and its allies revealed that some 1,866 of the PUWP 's 1900 buildings had been taken over by the government . |
| 22 | Richard Pulteney believed that these two doctors , together with Rutherford , Sinclair and Plummer were responsible for Edinburgh 's reputation as one of the finest medical schools in Europe , and Miller preferred Alston 's Medical Essays to ‘ all the Modern Books of Physick ’ . |
| 23 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 24 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 25 | Suddenly she noticed that all three had their trousers around their ankles . |
| 26 | Harwood ( 1986 ) estimated that some 2–3 m of the uppermost Permian Cadeby Formation has been replaced by ( former ) anhydrite within the subsurface of Yorkshire , but in other carbonate formations within the Zechstein Basin more considerable amounts of replacement have probably taken place . |
| 27 | Some reports estimated that some 7,000 Kuwaiti civilians had been killed by Iraqi forces by the end of the year . |
| 28 | In 1987 , a consultant 's report estimated that some 250 jobs ( including road haulage , etc. ) were generated by Scandinavian trade . |
| 29 | Once Fat Watt came with them , and once the priest came and all four stood there together . |
| 30 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |