Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 More likely the intention was to give brothers portions which provided equal incomes .
2 In theory this action was to stop arms shipments from the Sandinistas being sent to El Salvador to support the left wing rebels there .
3 So what we would do then is identify the fact that we 've come into the building and therefore alerted everybody that lo and behold down the corridor are coming police officers .
4 A top Scottish judge is accusing police officers of lying in court to secure convictions .
5 When computerised personnel systems are discussed , it is often assumed that the kind of thing in question is interrogating personnel records , salary modelling and manpower planning .
6 A man is helping police inquiries .
7 The Dutch government is offering farmers subsidies to persuade them to switch from dairy to energy farming .
8 Last night a man was helping police inquiries .
9 The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors .
10 Their objections led politicians in Washington to hold a meeting earlier this month to rethink the country 's failed drugs policies .
11 One way to strengthen this position is to use police definitions of abuse :
12 The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works .
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