Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] 1 [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All subjects were given 1 l of tap water before imaging , the water acting as a positive — that is , bright , contrast medium , to outline the gut lumen without affecting motility state . |
| 2 | Warfarin was started and transcranial doppler recordings were repeated 1 month later ; he had had only one transient ischaemic attack in the interim , when his international normalised ratio had been only 1.3 . |
| 3 | This series of frames was taken during a 90 minute period ; the subject was given 1 l of tap water to highlight the antrum and duodenum . |
| 4 | Whole flies ( 100 to 200 mg ) were crushed in 1 ml of extraction buffer ( Tris 10mM pH 7.8 , NaCl 60 mM , EDTA 10mM ) at 0–5°C to which was added 1 volume of lyse buffer ( Tris 300 mM , pH 9 , EDTA 100 mM , DEPC 0.8% ) , SDS 1% , Proteinase K 100µg/ml and incubated 1 h at 65°C . |
| 5 | , John ( 1743–1821 ) , instrument-maker , was born in Dearham , Cumberland , late June 1743 ( he was baptized 1 July ) , the second of four children ( the eldest of whom predeceased him ) and elder son of Jonathan Cuthbertson , an innkeeper and yeoman , and his second wife Mary Fisher . |
| 6 | , Joseph Thomas ( 1782–1850 ) , industrialist , was baptized 1 May 1782 , the eldest child in the family of one son and two daughters of Joseph Austen of Plymouth , brewer and mayor , and his wife Susanna , daughter of William Esco Treffry of Place , Fowey , Cornwall . |
| 7 | He was buried 1 May 1689 at St Andrew Undershaft in London . |
| 8 | , Charles ( 1899–1962 ) , actor and film star , was born 1 July 1899 at the Victoria Hotel , Scarborough , the eldest of three sons ( there were no daughters ) of Robert Laughton , a prosperous hotelier , and his wife Elizabeth Conlon . |
| 9 | , Alun ( 1915–1944 ) , poet and short-story writer , was born 1 July 1915 in Aberdare , south Wales , the eldest in the family of three sons and one daughter of Tom Lewis , a schoolmaster , and his wife Gwyladys Elizabeth , daughter of Melchizedec Evans , a Unitarian minister . |
| 10 | , John ( 1715–1759 ) , Methodist preacher and subsequently Independent minister , was born 1 March 1715 in Whitehough near Chinley , Derbyshire , the son of William Bennet , Presbyterian farmer , and his wife Mary . |
| 11 | , Charles ( 1858–1940 ) , mathematician and writer on seismology , was born 1 May 1858 in Bishopswearmouth , county Durham , the second son of Edwin Charles Davison , fleet paymaster , Royal Navy , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Joseph L. Spence of Swayfield , Lincolnshire . |
| 12 | , Lady Dorothy Fanny ( 1826–1913 ) , hostess , horticulturist , and collector , was born 1 April 1826 at 11 Berkeley Square , London . |
| 13 | , Edith ( 1846–1934 ) , artist , was born 1 September 1846 at Bocking , Braintree , Essex , the younger child and only daughter of John Minton Courtauld , junior partner in Samuel Courtauld & Company , silk and crêpe manufacturers , and his wife Sarah Bromley . |
| 14 | , Charlotte Maria Shaw ( 1842–1923 ) , educational reformer , was born 1 January 1842 in Bangor , the only child of Joshua Mason , a Liverpool merchant , and his wife Charlotte . |
| 15 | , Dugald ( 1840–1912 ) , mechanical engineer , was born 1 January 1840 in Ardrossan , Ayrshire , the son of George Drummond , a permanent-way inspector on the Bowling to Balloch Railway , and his wife Christina Thomson . |
| 16 | , John ( 1848–1928 ) , geologist , was born 1 January 1848 in Campsie , Stirlingshire , the son of James Horne , farmer of Newmill , Campsie , and his wife Janet Braid . |
| 17 | , Thomas ( 1695–1730 ) , poet and clergyman , was born 1 August 1695 . |
| 18 | , Richard ( 1817–1886 ) , painter , was born 1 August 1817 in Chatham , the third of the four sons and fourth of the seven children of Robert Dadd , apothecary and chemist , of Chatham , and his wife Mary Ann ( who died in 1824 ) , daughter of Richard Martin of Gillingham . |