Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following that initial spate of concern , the ten years between 1976 and 1985 were declared the ‘ Decade for Women ’ . |
| 2 | From the beginning of Phase 2 , BRAC implemented a change in the method of teaching the LGS message to the villagers : Whilst 90% of the unions ( subdistricts ) visited by Oral Replacement Workers in Phase 2 were given the same ‘ Standard ’ training which had been offered to the other unions during Phase 1 , 10% of the Phase 2 unions were chosen to test an experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme ( CRP ) developed by BRAC . |
| 3 | A proposal for an internationally supervised ceasefire put forward by the FMLN on Nov. 22 was rejected the following day by Cristiani , who , however , offered on Dec. 10 to renew peace talks . |
| 4 | The other church leaders were released after several hours in custody , although three were re-arrested the following day . |
| 5 | In 1904 was opened the most remarkably light railway in British light railway history , the Leek and Manifold . |
| 6 | Stroudley was an active member of the Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers and in 1884 was awarded the George Stephenson medal and Telford premium for his outstanding paper on ‘ The Construction of Locomotive Engines ’ . |
| 7 | He was mentioned in dispatches in 1917 , and in the summer of 1918 was awarded the DFC for gallantry in action with the Royal Air Force . |
| 8 | In 1989 he was visiting fellow of Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and in 1992 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters at Cambridge fro work in modern and medieval German and Celtic studies . |
| 9 | A temporary ceasefire agreed on March 11 was broken the following day . |
| 10 | In 1964 ‘ serious ’ music took over altogether and daytime Network 3 was renamed the Music Programme . |
| 11 | When family 1 was detected the elder brother was under orthopaedic management for his abnormal gait but Duchenne muscular dystrophy had not been suspected . |
| 12 | The only group claiming responsibility was the hitherto unknown " Mohammed El Boukhima " , and about 15 people detained for questioning in the Albi area on May 23 were freed the same day . |
| 13 | In August 1306 , at the pope 's request , Amanieu VII was granted the lordship of Meilhan in the Bazadais by Edward I. The grant was not to prejudice the existing rights of another lord , Auger de Mothe , to levy a lucrative toll or péage at Meilhan , but Albret willingly agreed to this because he and Auger had been ‘ companions and friends since their youth ’ ( a suis juventutibus fuerant socii et amici ) . |
| 14 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 15 | In the North Isle of the Parish church of Newport painell in Buckinghamshire , in the yeare 1619 was found the body of a man whole and perfect ; laid downe , or rather leaning downe , North , and South : all the concauous parts of his body , and the hollownesse of euery bone , as well ribs as other , were filled vp with sollid lead . |
| 16 | The two were given the VIP treatment after winning Newsline 's competition to find a name for the Telephone Service Unit . |
| 17 | To a combustible internal situation in August 1945 was added the beginnings of great power rivalry and animosity , which would ensure that the deadly hatreds within Korean society would be resolved amid a framework of hostility between superpowers that would have profound repercussions for Korea . |
| 18 | In 1971 was passed the Industrial Relations Act . |
| 19 | While at Edwards she was flown in tests designed to evaluate the potential of jets as drone aircraft and as such ‘ 633 was called the Reluctant Robot . |
| 20 | These secretaries also began to attend meetings of the royal council , though merely as clerks , not as members , and in 1559 were given the title of secretaries of state . |