Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 2 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 3 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 4 | Leeds last 2 goals were in the last 8 minutes . |
| 5 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 6 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 7 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 8 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 9 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 10 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 11 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 12 | This , at least , was the way things were until the third quarter of this century . |
| 13 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 14 | It is hard enough to tell how characteristic these figures were in the twelfth century ; impossible to tell how they compared with earlier centuries . |
| 15 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 16 | The two lavatories were on the second floor at the rear opposite the Document Examination Laboratory . |
| 17 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 18 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 19 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 20 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science , and particularly for scientific research . |
| 22 | ( a ) Whatever the role of individual mosaicists or groups of mosaicists was in the second century , there appears to be a long term trend in the popularity of certain designs over which control by these mosaicists was negligible . |
| 23 | But expressions of a recursive language , I maintain , could probably not have acquired their categorial valency as it were , their powers of combination into new but readily understood messages , unless their users were on the second rung of the intentional ladder and therefore , potentially , past the Gricean hump . |
| 24 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 25 | Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they . |
| 26 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 27 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 28 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 29 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 30 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |