Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we were struggling to get ten minutes each . |
| 2 | Special trains were chartered to transport 2,000 employees and their families down to the gleaming new plant from Ford 's Trafford Park factory in Manchester which was in the process of closing . |
| 3 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 4 | The largely ceremonial meetings which began in Madrid on Oct. 30 were expected to last three days and were intended merely to initiate a wider negotiating process . |
| 5 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 6 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 7 | Oh yes , we definitely needed the three points today , you know , before the game we were looking to get three points erm to get one out of it we are disappointed , but as I say , the way we 've played second half , we 've just got to take a bit of heart from the fact that we did n't get beat . |
| 8 | However , the cost of painting so many large plates proved too expensive so plans were made to issue five sections : trees and shrubs , greenhouse plants , exotics , flowers and fruits ; all with plates of the most unusual varieties . |
| 9 | Villa were made to pay 12 minutes into the second half . |
| 10 | These studies were performed using four DNAs : a single stranded 14-mer corresponding to the sequence 386–400 , a double stranded 49-mer corresponding to the 5' R region , the ds LTR and a linear or supercoiled plasmid containing the first 990 bp of HIV-1 ( pHIVCG9.9 ) . |
| 11 | Unpaired t tests were performed to compare two groups . |
| 12 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 13 | Social workers visited Celia and Danny to arrange sessions at a family centre , but the couple announced they were going to spend two weeks in Hackney with Danny 's mother . |
| 14 | How did i it come about that y you were placed in the situation that you were going to get thirty pounds a week less ? |
| 15 | ‘ We were genuinely worried we were going to get 200,000 kids outside the front door , she 's becoming so popular . ’ |
| 16 | As part of the effort to resettle the long-stay population the occupational and industrial therapy departments were integrated to offer 180 places specifically for this group . |
| 17 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 18 | Patients in the IM trial were randomised to receive two weeks of treatment with either placebo ( lactose tablets ) or a combination of colloidal bismuth subcitrate ( DeNol tab ) 120 mg four times daily , oxytetracycline 500 mg four times daily , and metronidazole 400 mg three times daily . |
| 19 | In summary , patients were randomised to receive 2 phases of oxygen therapy and 2 phases of air therapy and made 2 blinded choices of the more effective treatment . |
| 20 | Erm when you actually then moved on to start er start completing the , the C C Q you were asking , asking closed questions er you know you said , said to Martin can you tell me your wife 's name and he said yes and it went on about three or four times er yeah alright you were getting the names but you were having to ask two questions to actually get them because you were n't er were n't , you know , asking probe questions , you started off could you . |
| 21 | I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week . |
| 22 | It said that the ambulance control centre at Waterloo was in ‘ chaos and confusion , ’ and maintained that ambulance crews were continuing to answer 999 calls , even though they were suspended . |
| 23 | Mr Izetbegovic said Serbian-based paramilitaries who overran the eastern town of Zvornik on Thursday were threatening to kill 3,000 Muslims sheltering in a fortress . |
| 24 | The trees were found to exhibit three types of phenology : ( i ) low fruit production over a long time ( usually pioneers ) ; ( ii ) synchronous but irregular fruiting ( associated with predator satiation of rodents , the seeds being larger than those in ( i ) ; and ( iii ) synchronous regular cycles with successive and partly overlapping fruit production ( providing a year-round supply for the frugivores ) . |
| 25 | Vegetables in Mrs Minogue 's garden were tested : brussels sprouts were found to contain 45 parts per million ( ppm ) of lead . |
| 26 | With still more additional dietary fibre , 32g a day , the stools were found to contain 210 calories on average . |
| 27 | To gather information on the future needs of teachers with respect to health education , respondents were asked to rank five areas of support in order of importance . |
| 28 | Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations . |
| 29 | Photographers were asked to pay fifty pounds a head to take pictures of the troubled businessman , who 's facing theft and fraud charges . |
| 30 | The Justices were asked to review two questions . |