Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Repairs were expected to cost 100,000,000 roubles and to take six months . |
| 6 | Also while the L-Series boards were designed to provide two Mbus and four SBus connections , when using the SS2 chassis , the height restriction does n't allow for the second bank of Mbus and SBus slots . |
| 7 | Also while L-Series boards were designed to provide two Mbus and four SBus connections , when using the SS2 chassis , the height restriction does n't allow for the second bank of Mbus and SBus slots . |
| 8 | The city had tried ameliorating its appalling traffic congestion by restricting entry to the city : card whose registration plates ended in an even number were permitted to enter one day and those in an odd number the next . |
| 9 | The arms were said to comprise 200 Galil 7.62 mm and 200 Galil 5.56 mm assault rifles , 100 Mini-Uzis , and 250,000 rounds of ammunition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Villa were made to pay 12 minutes into the second half . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Unpaired t tests were performed to compare two groups . |
| 14 | Data from Landsat-1 were used to compare three plant canopy models for extracting plant , soil and shadow reflectance components of cropped fields . |
| 15 | Her organs were used to save four people 's lives and give sight to two more . |
| 16 | The terrain was so difficult that for part of the journey three locomotives were needed to pull one train . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eight healthy subjects were randomised to receive five day courses of SMS 201–995 ( 25µg subcutaneously three times daily ) , omeprazole ( 40 mg once a day ) , a combination of both drugs , or placebo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They were compelled to borrow five dou of maize from a landlord . |
| 24 | During the rearing period , about one in 10 pairs were found to lose one parent , usually the male , through desertion or predation . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Vegetables in Mrs Minogue 's garden were tested : brussels sprouts were found to contain 45 parts per million ( ppm ) of lead . |
| 27 | With still more additional dietary fibre , 32g a day , the stools were found to contain 210 calories on average . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the end of the study the volunteers were asked to drink 1.5–2 l of an oral rehydration solution over the next 24 hours , but most of the subjects preferred other liquids . |
| 30 | 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 . |