Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as central London headquarters , branches were known to exist at Hackney , Kentish Town , Bristol , Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 2 | The families were told to attend at half-hour intervals from ten o'clock onwards . |
| 3 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 4 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 5 | During the last phase of the scheme 's existence , when storage problems became increasingly pressing and the scheme 's abolition imminent , artists were encouraged to keep at home the works of art they had officially sold to the government . |
| 6 | The score is sacrosanct ( yes , even early scores where performers were left to improvise at will , since the original performing tradition is now lost to us ) , and except in relatively extreme cases normally gives a clear indication of exactly which notes should be played and when . |
| 7 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 8 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 9 | Until recently , however , only the Archaeological Survey of India and the Konserwacji Zabytkow of Poland were permitted to work at Angkor Wat and Bayon , respectively because , like the Cambodians , they were aligned with the former Soviet bloc . |
| 10 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |