Example sentences of "[adj] were [vb pp] at [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 4 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These were pitched at a number of different levels . |
| 7 | Co-incidentally these were held at the Birmingham Indoor Arena , the set of the TV programme ‘ The Gladiators ’ . |
| 8 | ( These were paid at a rate of 12p per mile with 100 per cent of the extra cost paid in the first year ; 75 per cent in the second ; 50 per cent in the third ; 25 per cent in the fourth and nothing thereafter . ) |
| 9 | Special diets were allowed for sick inmates and these were allocated at the discretion of the medical officer : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All were treated at the Berkshire base 's medical centre , but were not seriously affected . |
| 12 | The Essex group consists of 17 Young Farmers Clubs , and all were represented at the show . |
| 13 | All were used at the time of the Edgar " Ordo " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 17 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 18 | Four more were recruited at a meeting in December . |
| 19 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 20 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 21 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 22 | The two were combined at the planning stage , as illustrated by the written analysis to the County Development Plan of 1962 . |
| 23 | Over 180 local industrial projects worth a total of US$6,800 million were presented at the forum . |
| 24 | Mozambique 's needs for external assistance in 1990 were put at a total of $1,400 million . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |