Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of documents concerning trading contacts between the two countries in 1993 were signed at the meeting . |
| 2 | Some were tearing at the glass , others struggling with the doors , but none of them could get out . |
| 3 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 4 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 5 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 6 | These were recorded at the Capitol Tower in Hollywood , where Buck was a session guitarist prior to the blossoming of his own career in the early '60s . |
| 7 | Co-incidentally these were held at the Birmingham Indoor Arena , the set of the TV programme ‘ The Gladiators ’ . |
| 8 | Special diets were allowed for sick inmates and these were allocated at the discretion of the medical officer : |
| 9 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 10 | All were treated at the Berkshire base 's medical centre , but were not seriously affected . |
| 11 | The Essex group consists of 17 Young Farmers Clubs , and all were represented at the show . |
| 12 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 13 | Scotland , compared to England and Wales , has relatively few medieval churches but , precisely because so many were destroyed at the time of the Reformation , Scotland is rich in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture . |
| 14 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 were sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 15 | This is a much larger proportion than that found among teenage women , where only about 1 in 3 were cohabiting at the time of the birth . |
| 16 | Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day . |
| 17 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 18 | The two were combined at the planning stage , as illustrated by the written analysis to the County Development Plan of 1962 . |
| 19 | Over 180 local industrial projects worth a total of US$6,800 million were presented at the forum . |
| 20 | Seven were announced at the company 's well attended ( 1,800 turned up instead of the expected 1,000 ) 5th annual international user group show in San Jose , California , last week . |
| 21 | Seven were announced at the company 's well-attended ( 1,800 turned up instead of the expected 1,000 ) fifth annual international user group show in San Jose , California , last week . |
| 22 | Both were constructed at the Chrzanow Locomotive Works in Poland , one in 1954 and work on restoring these , plus regauging them for use on the centre 's narrow gauge line will start in the near future . |