Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swimmers old and new are being urged to book early for courses at Berwick Hills pool , Middlesbrough , as hundreds were enrolled on a previous programme . |
| 2 | Of the 51 people in the study whose voting behaviour was known , 47 were entered on the household electoral form . |
| 3 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |
| 4 | The arbitrage arguments used in Chapter 4 were based on the idea that , by holding a portfolio of the shares in the index with the same weights as the index , the price of this portfolio must converge at delivery to that of the index future . |
| 5 | A total staff of 82 were employed on the Shell Forging Plant , by far the largest proportion being men owing to the heavy work involved in handling billets . |
| 6 | About 15 of the canisters , which explode when they dry out , have been discovered on the coast at Mull of Kintyre and more than 50 were found on the Isle of Man , where five have spontaneously ignited . |
| 7 | Complementary pairs of oligonucleotides with the sequences indicated in Figure 1 were synthesized on an Applied Biosystems model 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer . |
| 8 | The Council was generally elected for a six-year term , but the 1990 elections were called after those of 1986 were annulled on a technicality . |
| 9 | Written questions had been invited , and 40 were received on a wide variety of subjects , which meant there was no time for extras from the floor , although the audience did contribute some penetrating comment . |
| 10 | Anyone wanting to buy a copy , only 100 were printed and of these twenty were sold on the day of publication . |
| 11 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 13 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 14 | Standards One and Two were taught on the ground floor — a large room divided by sliding screens . |
| 15 | four were full-time units and two were run on a part-time basis . |
| 16 | The quotations which Eurofighter provided er in nineteen ninety two were based on the equipment option prices which are included in each of the equipment development contracts . |
| 17 | One was in the cockpit , at the controls ; the other two were standing on the rear platform , firing blasters at random towards the clifftop and overseeing the automatic fire of the hoverspeeder 's cannon . |
| 18 | All twenty-six were slaughtered on the directions of an inspector from the Board of Agriculture who also said that if the Borough meat inspector passed any of them , they could be sold for food ; the others were to be buried . |
| 19 | But no treatment was forthcoming as 10 million were put on the dole , two million on food stamps and hundreds of thousands out on the streets . |
| 20 | Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor , but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health . |
| 21 | In addition to other recent mineral discoveries , the first significant oil deposits ( other than in the Kutubu oilfield area ) to have been located in the area since the 1950s were discovered on the southern slopes of the Highlands . |