Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] a [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 2 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 3 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 4 | It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in . |
| 5 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 6 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |