Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [coord] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an exchange of fire , six Armenian militants were shot dead , and 10 servicemen and a passer-by were injured . |
| 2 | Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation . |
| 3 | A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach . |
| 4 | It will be remembered that Dudley and Stephens was the case where three men and a cabin-boy were compelled to take to an open boat after the wreck of their yacht Mignonette . |
| 5 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 6 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 7 | The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat . |
| 8 | Sixteen pubs and a nightclub are taking part in the scheme , being regarded as a preventive measure rather than replacing the normal reporting of incidents to the police . |
| 9 | The bodies of 6 ewes and a ram were piled onto a tractor trailer near where they drowned in the Stretford Brook . |
| 10 | NINE rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces near the Syrian border , Ankara authorities said yesterday , adding claims that Kurdish separatists receive foreign support . |
| 11 | Mrs Jean Vince ( 29 ) was said to be recovering at St James 's Hospital , Leeds and husband Jan ( 36 ) ‘ has n't touched base ’ since the five girls and a boy were all born healthy , weighing between 2lb 12oz and 1lb 6oz . |
| 12 | Jan Vince 's five girls and a boy were born by caesarean section to mum Jean within six minutes at St James 's Hospital in Leeds on May 19 . |
| 13 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 14 | In Tirana on March 10 two schools and a hospital were looted . |
| 15 | In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 17 | Two rooms and a telephone were reserved for the CAB and , with a list of appointments prepared by the company , clients were called over the tannoy system to avoid queues . |
| 18 | In 1873 , two men and a boy were fishing in a rowing boat off the coast of Newfoundland , when one of the men stuck a boathook into a mass of floating wreckage . |
| 19 | Two men and a woman were taken to hospital after the explosion outside a branch of the National Westminster Bank in Panton Street . |
| 20 | The drugs were discovered after two men and a woman were arrested outside Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes . |
| 21 | The warnings follow a number of muggings on Thursday evening in which two students and a lecturer were robbed . |
| 22 | Two daughters and a son were born to them before ‘ Bill ’ was killed on the western front in February 1917 . |