Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All electroporation steps were carried out at 4°C .
2 During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry .
3 In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks .
4 Drivers were ordered out at gunpoint .
5 The last rites of the VORRSA were played out at Welshpool at the end of September , when the assets were transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway .
6 Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes .
7 It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum .
8 His team were booed off at Vicarage Road after their eighth game without a win .
9 In the recessionary 1970s , most governments were turned out at elections or saw their share of electoral support fall .
10 In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 .
11 According to the doctor , after the Russian army invaded the museum , members of the family and all museum officials were ordered out at gunpoint , making it highly unlikely that any affectionate gifts were tendered to the occupying officers .
12 Where reviews were carried out at team meetings or ward meetings , the number of participants was higher ( the overall mean was four ) .
13 Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 .
14 Last month the CPS offered no evidence on any of the charges , and Mr Haughton , Mr Martin and Mr Palmer were bound over at Liverpool Magistrates Court .
15 I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of
16 HUNDREDS of people were checking in at New York 's JFK airport , but one face stood out from the crowd .
17 None of the sixty-five racers were holding back at Fairford .
18 Hybridizations were carried out at 42°C for 16 h in 50% formamide-5 SSC-40 mM Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) -5 Denhardt 's solution-0.5% SDS-100 µg of denatured salmon sperm DNA per ml .
19 He showed no emotion as the charges were read out at Cookstown Magistrate 's Court .
20 All procedures were carried out at room temperature .
21 Within a week of the inquiry Chapman 's former stars were snapped up at bargain prices totalling £ 10,150 , the highest fee , £1,250 , being paid by Notts County for McCleod .
22 Army bomb disposal experts were called in at Hope , Derbys — and another ‘ suspicious package ’ was found four miles away at Bamford .
23 The presence of immigration officials and police on board trains is comparable to the scenes of 1930s America where migrant labourers were turned back at state boundaries .
24 The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 .
25 A little later , shows were put on at village fairs and halls by travelling showmen .
26 Before the receivers were called in at Olympia & York , the Reichmann brothers commanded a billion-dollar business empire which had changed the skyline of London and New York .
27 Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia .
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