Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite minority reservations , Moody and Sankey were rapturously received in 1874 in Inverness , Campbeltown and Oban after international success in Edinburgh and Glasgow to mention but Scotland . |
| 2 | Taubman took out $47 million in the first public share offering when Sotheby 's shares were successfully floated in 1988 . |
| 3 | Dilatation was resumed after a gap of three to four weeks and the strictures were successfully dilated to 45 FG in all without further complication . |
| 4 | The mothers of 709 of these babies were successfully interviewed within two weeks of the baby 's first birthday , and the findings published ( Newson and Newson 1963 ) . |
| 5 | They expected a few dozen requests , but boxes were eventually sited at 100 farms and two years on experts are thrilled with the results . |
| 6 | He also shared in the efforts to end child sacrifices which were eventually prohibited in 1803 . |
| 7 | Plans to incorporate the cottages into The Globe were made by the brewery in 1983 , but were eventually abandoned in 1987 . |
| 8 | In 1862 he received a commission from the town of Preston to design a series of parks , to be laid out as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine ; Moor Park , Miller Park , and Avenham Park were eventually opened in 1867 . |
| 9 | rabbits were rigorously protected for hundreds of years and soon spread far and wide to become the most familiar wild animal of the British mainland . |
| 10 | All his shirts were properly folded in three columns in his wardrobe , the striped shirts in one pile , the plain whites in another , the checks in a third . |
| 11 | Milk derivatives were slowly reintroduced after one month of follow up in both groups . |
| 12 | Her bilirubin concentration , which had begun to fall after stent removal , continued to improve and the steroids were slowly reduced to zero over a period of two months . |
| 13 | Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880 . |
| 14 | The staff were effectively divided into two tiers , with a third of them trained into the advice-giving role of financial consultants while the remainder , ‘ customer services representatives ’ , resumed the agent role of collecting premiums and other basic services . |
| 15 | They were mostly recruited from one of the youth movements , or were teachers or social workers with a readiness to handle any problem thrown at them . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the limitations of the supranational institutions and the unwillingness of member states totally to set aside their own national interests were starkly exposed in 1959 . |
| 17 | For the initial experiment , at day 7 , 70 mice were randomly allocated to one of three groups . |
| 18 | Effect of dietary calcium on normal small and large bowel mucosa proliferation Forty animals were randomly divided into two equal groups of which one group received calcium supplementation . |
| 19 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 20 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 21 | The types existed because certain basic patterns of animal organization were more efficient than any other conceivable forms , so all species were necessarily based upon one or another of these patterns . |
| 22 | They had a common feeling : not that they were necessarily agreeing with one another , because often they were n't . |
| 23 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 24 | Following a 1973 ban on political activity , political parties were constitutionally proscribed in 1978 . |
| 25 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 26 | It includes Conwy and Caernarfon , whose castles were only begun in 1283 and not finished until 1292 , and it has therefore been suggested that it was made over a period of years . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course we were only invited for ten days or so . ’ |
| 28 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 29 | Common bile duct stones were only shown in 10 patients ( 25% ) . |
| 30 | Standards set by people in the public eye were only blamed by 39 per cent . |