Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven percent of the first wave fund-holders was allocated £14.5 million to set up the administrative side of the scheme , but the remaining 93 percent were given a total of £19 million in the 1991 autumn statement . |
| 2 | These fish were left a couple of weeks for the tank and filter to mature . |
| 3 | About 20 other people were denied a vote through a ‘ computer error ’ . |
| 4 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 5 | As other forms of control and influence , such as that of the lower clergy , diminished , the people were given a space in which to make their own culture . |
| 6 | Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes . |
| 7 | On Community Programme people were paid a wage , on Community Action they will be paid benefit plus an allowance . |
| 8 | That such a man should be placed in the role of ruler over God 's chosen people was deemed a curse — an affliction visited by God upon His people , a punishment for transgression both past and present . |
| 9 | Each member of staff was allocated a time on the machine , and Chief Manager Roddy Reid pledged £25 provided staff reached the target of 100 miles . |
| 10 | Bishop Day , a vengeful man , was reinstated and the more conservative clergy and gentry were given a chance to reassert the old authority . |
| 11 | In the women 's races , single sculler Alison Gill and a coxless pair were given a handicap start against the fours , which last year 's unchanged representative four ( K Marwick , R Hirst , J Turvey , P Cross ) won convincingly . |