Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now let's erm just go on to something perhaps that 's more to the point , you were asked on a number occasions er what information was given and so for and when , er can you see in fact on some of these documents that the brochures are indeed dated ? , just look at er please , you can see that it 's a printed brochure it 's got a number of er additions and then we look at page thirty seven boldly state you have that as twenty sixth March eighty five , do n't you ? |
| 2 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 3 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 4 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 5 | A thin-sliced T-weighted MRI and magnetic resonance angiography was obtained with a Radionics MRI ring and fiducial system attached to the patient 's skull . |