Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in Constantinople the creation of one was begun in the 1850s ( though in this case it was very poorly organised ) , while a Records Director was appointed at the end of the 1860s in an effort to control the tide of paper which , in the Turkish foreign office as in all others , was now flowing more and more strongly . |
| 2 | While a police constable was in the living room , the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth . |
| 3 | Three teenagers have been charged with aggravated vehicle taking after a police officer was injured during a high-speed chase across two counties . |
| 4 | There was even talk of an IRA link , after an arms cache was found eight miles away . |
| 5 | Also in Belfast , police arrested a man after an arms cache was found in the Protestant Donegall Pass district . |
| 6 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 7 | I , on the other hand , had backache and climbed it as though a cattle prod were taped to my spine . |