Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1980 I was 15 years old and still at school , still a year away from O-levels , and drumming in my first band called Smallprint , playing at SWP benefit gigs ! |
| 2 | The two unique noncrystallographic twofold axes ( L 1 and L 2 which were major peaks in the self-rotation function ) are shown . |
| 3 | Before moving to Radio 2 she was chief assistant at Radio 4 , handling schedules . |
| 4 | Between 1876 and 1972 there were 63 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ( Law Lords ) . |
| 5 | When that Committee reported in 1972 there was further delay before a White Paper , Computers and Privacy , was published in 1975 ; the Data Protection Committee was established in 1976 and reported , recommending legislation , in 1978 . |
| 6 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 7 | In the 1890s there was periodic tinkering with judicial policy . |
| 8 | In the spring of 1802 there was another phase of mutually influenced poetic production ; Wordsworth wrote over thirty important poems at this time , and though Coleridge had already announced — in March 1801 — that ‘ The poet is dead in me ’ , he was able to contribute the main theme of the dialogue , which is , put simply , what happens to ‘ young Romantic poets ’ after the age of thirty when the visionary period of youth comes to an end . |
| 9 | The practice grew from strength to strength until by 1985 there were four partners and three assistant solicitors in the firm of Norrie , Bowler and Wrigley . |
| 10 | By 1985 there were eight colleges and universities in the territories , and four UNRWA vocational training centres . |
| 11 | In 1985 there were two developments . |
| 12 | During 1985 there were 17 cases of sex murder , 188 cases of sexual assault , and 29 cases of minor sexual offences included in our study . |
| 13 | In 1985 there were 24 convictions for murder , but there were only eight in 1990 . |
| 14 | During 1985 there were 50 attacks on shipping as against 62 the previous year . |
| 15 | In 1985 there were large seminars or workshops on the impact of microprocessors on employment , on telecommunications , the process-equipment industries , the food processing industry , the management of technical change in Japan , the prospective developments in medicial technologies , a large number on changing skill requirements , co-operation in pre-competitive R&D , the future of the UK steel industry , and on the potential impact of technical change on the employability of the less able . |
| 16 | In 1985 there were 791 cataloguers , two administrators and 169 photographers ; in order to carry out the current drive the number of employees has been set at 4,463 . |
| 17 | In 1985 there were 66 applications for judicial review and the number was on the decline . |
| 18 | Yet its numbers are not high : in 1985 there were 1,918 pedigree breeding females and 47 bulls in Britain . |
| 19 | Through the 1820s and 1830s there was increased contact with British and French industrial concerns . |
| 20 | By 1903 there were 385 electrics in operations , 103 conversions , and 42 salt trailers . |
| 21 | In London he became a member of the congregation of J. Baldwin Brown , a famous Congregational preacher in Brixton , and in 1876 he was ordained minister at the Congregational church in Shipley , near Bradford . |
| 22 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 23 | Between 1882 and 1885 he was British Chaplain in Switzerland , returning to become Vicar of Brompton Regis in Somerset . |
| 24 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 25 | At twenty-one he was two years older than Anthony . |
| 26 | On 8th December , 1985 he was consecrated bishop in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Hume , as has special responsibility as area bishop for Central London . |
| 27 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
| 28 | A devout Christian , Frumentius visited Alexandria , where in about AD 330 he was consecrated Bishop by the Patriarch Athanasius . |
| 29 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 30 | The House of Lords held unanimously that a court of summary jurisdiction has a similar discretion , overruling Reg. v. Guest , Ex parte Anthony [ 1964 ] 1 W.L.R. 1273 and Reg. v. Gore Justices , Ex parte N. ( An Infant ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1522 which were two decisions of the Divisional Court to the contrary effect . |