Example sentences of "[was/were] [be] question [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 2 | TWO men last night were being questioned about the IRA bombing of Harrods following a dramatic armed raid just hours after police showed a video of two suspects . |
| 3 | As the three funerals were taking place , four men from the Coleraine area were being questioned about the killings . |
| 4 | As the three funerals were taking place , four men from the Coleraine area were being questioned about the murders . |
| 5 | In a permissive society where officialdom and authority were being questioned at every turn , misbehaviour and impetuousness became a badge of courage and style . |
| 6 | The two men , who were being questioned at the high-security Paddington Green police station in central London under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , will appear at Arbour Square Magistrates ' Court this morning . |
| 7 | Both men were arrested and were being questioned at Northwich police station last night . |
| 8 | On the same day the chairman of the commission investigating the June events disclosed that miners were being questioned over their involvement in the violent crackdown against the anti-government demonstrators and the subsequent ransacking of opposition leaders ' offices and homes . |
| 9 | Eight people were being questioned by police after 250 kilos of cannabis worth £1m was found concealed in a consignment of cabbages which arrived in Birmingham from Holland . |
| 10 | Both were being questioned by Wakefield police yesterday . |
| 11 | Last night Mr and Mrs Robinson — described by police as ‘ loving and caring ’ — were being questioned by a team of detectives along with present and former tenants . |
| 12 | A COUPLE who left their two children ‘ Home Alone ’ while they jetted off for a sunshine Christmas holiday were being questioned by police last night . |
| 13 | The male driver of a Ford Escort XR3i and his female passenger were being questioned by police . |
| 14 | Two people were being questioned by police . |
| 15 | Three youths were being questioned by police last night . |
| 16 | Some 150 northern businessmen were being questioned by the police , having come forward to volunteer information about bribes they had paid . |
| 17 | FIVE people were being questioned by police yesterday in connection with the murder of trainee accountant Martin Jacks . |
| 18 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 19 | Two British men were being questioned after being arrested when the tablets were found on Saturday concealed in holdalls in a Peugeot estate that had arrived in Dover by ferry from Calais . |
| 20 | A Yard statement said the five were being questioned in connection with the alleged dishonest handling of £16m of the £26m in gold bars stolen in November 1983 from the Brink's-Mat bullion warehouse at Heathrow airport . |
| 21 | Shortly after Abe 's arrest it was reported that other members of the Miyazawa faction were being questioned in connection with the affair . |
| 22 | Brophy said that he was being questioned about leaks , and that rumours and false information were circulating . |
| 23 | The evening newspapers , however , noted that a suspect was being questioned about the current crime , so there was no further speculation about possible links between the various attacks . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 25 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 26 | He was being questioned about Glasgow 's declining health standards by worried councillors . |
| 27 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 28 | A 23-year-old man was being questioned at Brixton police station . |
| 29 | A Greater Manchester police spokesman said the man was being questioned at an unnamed police station about firearms offences . |
| 30 | He was being questioned at a police station in Bradford where the investigation is based . |