Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence showed , according to Mr Craven , that wherever individual party members were given the one member , one vote opportunity to voice their views , they rejected the hard left . |
| 2 | Wycliffe and Kersey were given the two chairs while Mark Garland perched on the edge of the couch . |
| 3 | Since the Del Mar organisers were given the 1992 final , they have built a £3 million arena alongside one of the finest race courses in the country . |
| 4 | They were offered the three alternative thresholds taken from the Institute 's recent consultative document and only 18% opted for the VAT registration limit ( turnover £36,600 ) ; 47% were in favour of the VAT cash accounting limit , and 35% opted for the EC small companies definition . |
| 5 | After landing , which included the formalities of a lecture on the dangers of picking up unidentified objects , we were transported the sixty or so kilometres into the capital town of Stanley , and deposited at our hotel on the waterfront . |
| 6 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 7 | Emily Lloyd , Whoopi Goldberg , daryl Hannah and Whitney Houston were amoung the dozens of rich and famous thronging the stage at Nelson Mandela 's 70th birthday party — an event shocking not just because of the numbers of celebrities involved , but because of the sheer diversity of its star-studded line-up . |
| 8 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |
| 9 | In a case along one wall were stored the six hundred and seventy-seven volumes of the Eternal Galactic Encyclopaedia , each cube awaiting activation . |
| 10 | When the prayers were ended the three girls kissed him goodnight in turn , and Rose went with him to their room . |
| 11 | Amongst all the negative characteristics that Piggy was given the four which were stressed the most were his asthma , glasses , physical appearance and most of all the loss of his parents . |
| 12 | Mr Lavery , of Clare Avenue , Darlington , was given the 1937 black boots as part of a uniform during his army days and they 're still going strong . |
| 13 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 14 | My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant . |
| 15 | The letter was addressed to Chief Inspector Morse , St Aldate 's Central Police Station , Oxford , and in the top left-hand corner was written the one word : URGENT . |
| 16 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 17 | Once loaded on the Queen Mary , the aircraft was transported the 2–3 miles to the docks then hoisted to the carrier flight deck . |
| 18 | Thus was born the 30 km/h zone idea . |
| 19 | They say that before the first human was born the seven celestial sisters — the Nymphs of the Pleiades — using their sarongs as wings , used to descend to a sacred pool in Bali to bathe naked in the waters of the world . |
| 20 | By the time the alarm was raised the three raiders , one of them armed with a handgun , had fled the museum in Chelsea , London . |
| 21 | The most interesting story of all , however , was called The Two Weeds . |
| 22 | STOCKHOLM ( UPI , Reuter ) — A Norwegian professor , Trygve Haavelmo , 78 , described as a humble man who spends much of his time in seclusion at his mountain cottage , was awarded the 1989 Nobel Economics Prize for pioneering use of mathematical statistics to interpret economic data . |
| 23 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 24 | However , by the time any action was taken the two had disappeared . |