Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite an eerie sight when all the bubbles were erected in an engineers yard . |
| 2 | The others were given to an arts group , a sports individual and a sports group . |
| 3 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 4 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 5 | Gqozo said he had been forewarned of a coup plot , and the two conspirators were stopped by a police road block as they attempted to enter the capital , Bisho , from the direction of Transkei . |
| 6 | Nuclear DNA content of at least 10000 tumour cells in each block were measured with an EPICS C flow cytometer . |
| 7 | Eventually both men were bundled into a police car and driven away . |
| 8 | Well we had the parks to look after , we had the baths , the public baths and the playing fields to er they were administered through a parks superintendent . |
| 9 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 10 | Three men were arrested following a police operation in Birtley , near Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , on Saturday night . |
| 11 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 12 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 13 | A sergeant 's car was hit , and two shots were fired at an inspectors vehicle . |
| 14 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 15 | The Chesterfield Races were held within a stones throw of Sheepbridge & Brimington , and this is an original GC poster from the year 1911 when the fare from Penistone was two shillings and sixpence . |