Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 144 which were in progress included 18 high-rented flats at Deanfield and a redevelopment scheme of 50 houses . |
| 2 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 3 | ‘ Hilary Frome was in fact riding two horses . |
| 4 | St. John 's was in fact rebuilt ten years before the sack , but it survived remarkably well , and its stained glass existed up until the eighteenth century when Stukeley records its removal . |
| 5 | If it is an even number , then was in fact set two periods earlier and was set at the close of the previous period . |
| 6 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 7 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 8 | The first citizen of Knotty Ash was on site to put one of his tickling sticks in a time capsule , made at Springfields , which is to be buried in the grounds of a new heart transplant centre at Manchester 's Wythenshawe Hospital . |