Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accelerated growth of algae partially poisoned with copper sulphate has been claimed when these were treated with a 30th potency of copper sulphate , but Moss was not able to repeat this work . |
| 2 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 3 | All three hung in the air , moving and looping , until they were joined by a fourth : white , green , red , blue . |
| 4 | The legal arrangements for unification were contained in a second state treaty ( the first state treaty having been that providing for economic and monetary union — see pp. 37466-67 ) . |
| 5 | Until very recently the essential oil trade was almost exclusively confined to the perfume and flavours industries — where synthetic or nature identical substances were included without a second thought . |
| 6 | The National Westminster Bank Sevens , at Sydenham , were won for a third successive time by Brynteg CS , who enjoyed a comfortable semi-final against St Benedict 's , 20-4 , before a demanding final against Campion , 10-6 . |
| 7 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 8 | After 34 minutes , Dulwich were presented with a third goal . |
| 9 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 10 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 11 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 12 | Before counting ( LKB Wallac 1260 Multigamma II counter ) they were transferred to a second Falcon tube to exclude 1 2 5 I-IFN γ bound to plastic . |
| 13 | Joseph lead the team towards the children 's section and as they were passing through a second explosion was felt . |
| 14 | Those meetings were enclosed within a Fifth Force Field , so that no one ever knew what passed between the Emperor and his Adviser of the Computers . |
| 15 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 16 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 17 | All I can say is that it was edited by two women , it 's being promoted by a third , it 's being marketed by a fourth , the rights were sold by a fifth , and in Britain the serial rights were bought by a sixth . |
| 18 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 19 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 20 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 21 | Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later . |
| 22 | The coeliac patients were compared with a third group of 17 children ( mean age 9.7 , range 3–10 years , girls:boys 1.4:1 ) with various diseases or symptoms , such as chronic abdominal pain ( n=8 ) , failure to thrive ( n=6 ) , peptic ulcer ( n=2 ) , and immune deficiency ( n=1 ) . |
| 23 | It was halted following an incident at the Ballysally roundabout with Fogarty well clear of Robert Dunlop and Philip McCallen , who were credited with a second and third place respectively . |
| 24 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 25 | Mr. Lennon 's rates were reduced by a third . |
| 26 | Of those whose initial source was parents , most were girls , and more middle-class parents were cited as a first source of information than working-class parents . |
| 27 | Between 1962 and 1970 , numbers were cut by a third , from 127,000 to 83,000 . |
| 28 | The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position : |
| 29 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 30 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |