Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] taken at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 First steps were taken at the HSE conference in Jakarta .
2 The action was taken at the request of the company 's directors and in a statement dated April 30th Mr Dipankar Ghosh of the receivers Price Waterhouse commented that ‘ there is already strong interest in these businesses and early signs are very encouraging .
3 According to Curtis , strong action was taken at the group when it was needed , and this has now provided a ‘ springboard for growth ’ .
4 Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein .
5 They thought I was really funny , but when my particulars were taken at the end of the week , I was again brought across the counter to sign other folk on .
6 Although this photograph of Milford Street was taken at the turn of the century , the buildings showed little alteration in the ‘ thirties .
7 The dead man was taken at the end of a winding procession , with one man from every house in the village barefoot and carrying a log for the pyre .
8 This is ‘ Community legislation ’ in the sense in which that expression was taken at the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 , and the phrase will be used in the same sense in this article .
9 Law Fair : A double stand was taken at the Law Fair in February which was manned by representatives from the Young Barristers ' Association , the Circuits and most of the Specialist Bar Associations .
10 The decision to refurbish the Branch was taken at the time of the merger with Holt 's Whitehall last October .
11 No , no i ever every decision was taken at the lodge , the shop stewards did n't run the strike between them and just inform us after every decision was taken by all fifty members at the start and forty members at the finish , and I 'm you know I 'm proud to say that everyone was part of what went on .
12 A firm decision was taken at the onset of the competition to have 12 finalist .
13 No decision was taken at the meeting except that a further meeting on the subject would take place in the New Year .
14 The final decision was taken at the end of October , with victory only a few days away , and was announced with the publication of a letter from Lloyd George to Bonar Law , a letter actually drafted by Law as a summary of their agreement .
15 Blood samples were taken at the end of each infusion period for gastrin assay .
16 A SIGNIFICANT step was taken at the weekend towards the development of eastern Europe 's capital market , as representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development discussed making the bank 's first domestic bond issue in a former communist country with Hungarian investors and finance ministry officials .
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