Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 2 | To assist with these tasks each policy and resources committee was recommended to have four sub-committees : finance , land , personnel , and performance review . |
| 3 | Turkes ' group had emerged among Grand National Assembly delegates returned in the October general election , and was reported to comprise 19 delegates . |
| 4 | Terre Lliure , which was reported to have 60-100 members , had renounced its armed campaign on July 6 , as it negotiated integration with the ERC . |
| 5 | Miss Gregory was reported to have 150 grammes of heroin , carried internally in three condoms . |
| 6 | A machine dating from 1908 which was designed to give eight minutes of reproduction from cylinder records . |
| 7 | The building , which was designed to accommodate 200 paupers , cost £5,000 in all , for which the Duke of Bedford made a loan of £2,000 and Samuel Whitbread one of £800 . |
| 8 | The apparatus in which the animals were irradiated was designed to accommodate six animals arranged radially about the central axis of the x ray beam with their heads toward the centre . |
| 9 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 10 | The list of restricted exports was modified to remove 30 items of minor strategic value , with another eight items to be derestricted from August . |
| 11 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 12 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 13 | The case was expected to last two years ; Honecker , who had terminal liver cancer , was considered to have only 18 months to live . |
| 14 | This RTP ( reduce to products ) contract was expected to last two-and-a-half years , and has just about come to an end after less than two . |
| 15 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 16 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 17 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 18 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 19 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 20 | This was expected to cover four days , arriving Thursday and leaving Sunday . |
| 21 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 22 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |
| 23 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 24 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 25 | In particular , detectives are anxious to hear from a woman who was seen carrying two bags from a caravanette on board the Severn Explorer . |
| 26 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 27 | By 1636 he was said to operate five furnaces and nine forges and slitting mills in the west midlands . |
| 28 | But as the weather improved it was decided to airlift 380 men from the platform , leaving 117 on board . |
| 29 | It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art ; one artist and one critic . |
| 30 | It was decided to have 250 sets , each consisting of four postcards , printed . |