Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |
| 2 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 3 | The development of the service for the diagnosis and treatment of the sexually transmitted diseases in Great Britain stems largely from the efforts of one man , Colonel L. W. Harrison , who , somewhat unwillingly , was posted to a Guards Regiment Hospital in Rochester Row , London , in 1909 as pathologist . |
| 4 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 5 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 6 | He was caught by a police radar in Lydney . |
| 7 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 8 | The abortion counselling clause was included in an appropriations bill for labour , health and human services . |
| 9 | EXAMPLE Sufficient potassium iodide solution was added to a lead(ii) nitrate solution to precipitate all the lead as lead ( I , ) iodide . |
| 10 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |
| 11 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 12 | The body was tracked by a police helicopter and recovered by the Mersey Inshore Rescue Service , said coroner Roy Barter . |
| 13 | Keith Pringle who was shot by a police marksman after a 47-hour siege in Darlington was yesterday said to be in a ‘ stable ’ condition in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 14 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 15 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 16 | I was flung into a police van , and Russell was also dragged in . |
| 17 | Isabel Lenihan , who 's 77 , was found by a police helicopter . |
| 18 | Mr. Sheppard was hired as a contracts officer three months ago , but was told to go on leave after complaints about the selection process . |
| 19 | Those accused , besides Ransome Kuti and the two CD activists arrested with him on May 18 [ see p. 38900 ] , were the prominent human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi , arrested at his Lagos home on May 29 , and the president of the banned National Association of Nigerian Students ( NANS ) , Olusegun Mayegun , who was arrested with a NANS colleague on June 11 at Lagos University . |
| 20 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 21 | The cost of installing these features and retiling the remainder of the roof was assisted by a Repairs Grant provided by the local authority . |
| 22 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 23 | The old terminus was converted into a goods station , a common fate for superannuated passenger stations throughout the world , and Fort was provided with platform canopies and flowers to enhance its attractive position beside the lake in the centre of the city . |
| 24 | But it was converted to a goods station and reopened in 1881 . |
| 25 | His comments come two days after a Birmingham coroner at an inquest on two men killed when their van was struck by a police car accused force drivers of using TV car stunt tactics |
| 26 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 27 | Mr. Bell was taken to a police station in Liverpool and detained in police cells overnight . |
| 28 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 29 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 30 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |