Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 2 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | Aminoacids were analysed by a BAS 200A ternary gradient high performance liquid chromatography system ( Bioanalytical Systems Inc. , West Lafayette , IN , USA ) with a CMA200 autoinjector ( Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) . |
| 4 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 5 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 6 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 7 | However , as STEPHEN THORPE reports , this historic match was marred by a spectators ' boycott which kept the overall crowd down to 6500 |
| 8 | This designation was not without its local hostility ; the validity of the designation order was challenged by a residents ' protection society and the High Court held in favour of the objectors . |
| 9 | Haines , with an annual salary of £2,400 , was unable to pay and was consigned to a debtors ' prison . |
| 10 | Her toddler Gareth Mr Ashworth 's son was missing and the hunt was extended to Scotland after the youngster was abandoned at a citizens ' advice bureau near Glasgow . |
| 11 | He thereafter committed a large number of summary offences and two either way offences , of which he was convicted by a magistrates ' court . |
| 12 | Patients and Health Unions are demanding better security at Britain 's hospitals after an eleven year old girl was raped in a children 's ward . |
| 13 | It would be a nice idea if some of the money was donated to a children 's charity — after all , what can a 12-year-old do with £6 million ? |