Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the police certificate was accepted , the forms were filled and stamped , and placed in a tray marked ‘ out ’ . |
| 2 | I closed my eyes and suddenly the jakes door was thrust back and a veritable mountain of a man stood there . |
| 3 | I was working in the middle of the coffee region and so the Supplies Team was also in charge of the coffee plantations , Normally it was the women who did the harvesting , working some four hours a day . |
| 4 | The port was growing quickly and already the customs office was the busiest in Australia . |
| 5 | Finally a police sergeant was called and the demonstrators withdrew . |
| 6 | He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts . |
| 7 | Here the police station was a good way off . |
| 8 | But now even the deaths column was exhausted . |
| 9 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 10 | Shildon said he believed that , too , and asked how the police inquiry was going . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I did n't know where the police station was , ’ I retorted . |
| 12 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 13 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 14 | Yeah so please your worships it was the twenty first of June in the morning when the police officer was on duty on the Aces Accrington at Worley he had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noticed that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact , expired at the end of March . |
| 15 | may please Your Worships it was the twenty first of June in the morning when the police officer was on duty on the A six eight , the Acrington road to Worley . |
| 16 | The first attempt to organize a professional body occurred in 1831 , when the Architects Society was formed . |
| 17 | GARY STEVENS ' injury torment took another turn for the worse yesterday when the Rangers full-back was ruled out for up to six weeks with a stress fracture of the knee . |
| 18 | Mungo could understand why the police investigation was making so little progress . |
| 19 | This offence was absolute , i.e. no mens rea was required . |
| 20 | The other prisoners in the compound supported their stand as just and reasonable whereupon some fifty warders were assembled and carried Orchin , Richmond and McCready bodily to where a police officer was waiting . |
| 21 | There was further rioting on May 14 in Molenbeek , west of Brussels , where a police station was attacked , shops looted and fire bombs thrown as police sought to control a crowd of some 600 people . |