Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
2 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
3 | In April 1945 , as the partisans and Allies were freeing the last parts of northern Italy , Mussolini was smuggled out of Milan by the Germans . |
4 | IT is unbelievable that in 1970 , during our formative years , only 30 undergraduates were awarded the first general degree of the University , at a ceremony in Pathfoot . |
5 | El PaĆs reported that " a dozen " Nahda leaders were detained the next day . |
6 | Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain . |
7 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the seaside resorts were undergoing the first stages of the process that was to transform the seaside holiday from an exclusive upper-class recreation into a national institution . |
8 | The police were called the next day . |
9 | Iida 's remains were buried the next day . |
10 | The formal US indictments were issued the next day . |
11 | If the Tories were to form the next government then Chris Patten would be found a seat , if necessary . |