Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] [verb] " 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 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
| 3 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 4 | South Cave school was opened in 1967 , further extensions including a sports hall were completed in 1978 . |
| 5 | IN 1965 a Sports Council was set up to advise the government on future policy on sport and physical education . |
| 6 | Occasionally I felt that a policeman or a plain-clothes dick was looking rather too intently into my face . |
| 7 | I , on the other hand , had backache and climbed it as though a cattle prod were taped to my spine . |
| 8 | The picture of life in a goods station was painted by Ernest Protheroe : |
| 9 | At the entrance to Rose 's office a plainclothes policewoman was standing . |
| 10 | Third , a Revels officer was created ; there were various temporary appointments from 1494 and a permanent establishment from 1545 . |
| 11 | Subsequently , a munitions factory was erected on the Croydon side of the aerodrome , with both railway and tramway sidings leading into its yard . |
| 12 | Despite considerable controversy , a Children Act was passed in 1975 based on these recommendations . |
| 13 | Anchor 's first application for a drinks licence was refused in December . |
| 14 | When we returned from our honeymoon , feeling bronzed and glowing , a drinks party was held so that all the rest of the family and our friends might share in our celebration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the latter stages of Activity 3 , a requirements specification was developed , taking into account the problems and needs identified during the analysis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | AN IRA terrorist who claims he was involved in more than a dozen killings while acting as a police informer was arrested yesterday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An RUC spokesman confirmed that a police operation was carried out by C13 in the Shankill area after a member of the public alleged that demands for money had been made . |
| 23 | Earlier in the day , a police officer was shot and wounded during a routine check on a van ; |
| 24 | In February unknown gunmen killed Col. ( retd ) Rifat Ugurlutan , allegedly for his involvement in the activities of the security services , while on March 10 a police officer was assassinated in Istanbul by members of Dev Sol allegedly for his part in a 1989 May Day shooting incident [ p. 36668 ] . |
| 25 | Three teenagers have been charged with aggravated vehicle taking after a police officer was injured during a high-speed chase across two counties . |
| 26 | Following their release , a police officer was quoted by a local newspaper as saying that he had been forced to sign a statement implicating them in the murders . |
| 27 | The vehicles were badly damaged and a police officer was hurt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding . |
| 30 | Additional officers in a police van were called to give them back up and in turn became the target for bricks and stones . |