Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within a minute , any hopes of a Spurs recovery were ended , when the outstanding Roy Keane scored Forest 's second , thus securing their victory . |
| 2 | The document on the formation of a customs union was not unanimously agreed . |
| 3 | Negotiations on the establishment of a customs union were ahead of schedule , and the Commission was forecasting that the union could come into effect by 1967 , three years earlier than originally planned . |
| 4 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 5 | A man whose name was linked to the killer of a police informer was found murdered at his home in Chapel Street , Stroud , Glos , early yesterday . |
| 6 | THREE men arrested after the IRA bombing of a Warrington gas works and shooting of a police officer were today further remanded in custody until April 22 at London 's Arbour Square Magistrates Court . |
| 7 | The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with , what suited his talents best . |
| 8 | JASON Livingston has vowed to continue the fight to clear his name after his appeal against a drugs ban was rejected . |
| 9 | Anchor 's first application for a drinks licence was refused in December . |
| 10 | The weakness of TANU as a communications channel was well known . |
| 11 | AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday . |
| 12 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 13 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 14 | South Cave school was opened in 1967 , further extensions including a sports hall were completed in 1978 . |
| 15 | According to a government spokesman , three people including a police constable were killed and 175 people taken into custody ; opposition leaders claimed a higher total of casualties . |
| 16 | An example of good practice in incorporating disabled people into an allocations policy was again provided by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council . |
| 17 | The picture of life in a goods station was painted by Ernest Protheroe : |
| 18 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 19 | A MAN injured in a police shoot-out was last night in hospital with chest wounds while police pieced together the tangled events of a night of violence that also left one man dead and three policemen injured . |
| 20 | Mrs. Millings was pleased at being called " Miss " , and the excitement of being taken to work in a police car was another pleasing thought . |
| 21 | Additional officers in a police van were called to give them back up and in turn became the target for bricks and stones . |
| 22 | For one offender just four hours in a police cell was enough to wipe out fines totalling nearly one thousand two hundred pounds . |
| 23 | If she was an innocent abroad , her parents considered that a life cocooned in an all-girls school was hardly adequate preparation for the bright lights of the big city . |
| 24 | One river close to a pharmaceuticals factory was liberally laced with painkillers . |