Example sentences of "[was/were] invited [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 2 | Parents were invited into the school on certain days ( like the annual open day , prize day , the school play and the Christmas service ) . |
| 3 | After a time we were invited into the harem in the rear of the house . |
| 4 | In the well-known experiments of Stanley Milgrom in the United States , where members of the public were invited off the streets to torture others , although 60 per cent did so , 40 per cent did not . |
| 5 | In that imperial annus mirabilis of 1897 Nonconformist representatives were invited for the first time in English history to take part in a royal celebration when thirty representatives were allowed places at St Paul 's to witness the short act of worship in the midst of the Queen 's Jubilee procession through London . |
| 6 | During March 1830 his drawings for the new building were approved , and tenders were invited for the work , which comprised both a school for 150 pupils and a house for the Headmaster . |
| 7 | A hint of the depth of feeling in Stockport appeared in the Stockport Advertiser on 4th June 1856 , when tenders were invited for the building of a new grammar school in Shaw Heath . |
| 8 | A full scale mock-up of the wheelhouse was built to make sure that all equipment could be fitted in exactly where it was required and comments were invited on the precise layout of instrumentation and equipment . |
| 9 | About 60 children aged 10–12 from 16 schools were invited to the University of East Anglia for a Paint investigation day , organised by Dr J. Nicholson of the School of chemical Sciences , UEA , and supported by ICI Paints Division with a donation of paint materials . |
| 10 | In the late '60s Sunderland were invited to the USA and Canada to take part in a summer tournament with Aberdeen and Dundee United . |
| 11 | The authors of the best contributions were invited to the megaconference in December that wound up the government 's Information Technology year . |
| 12 | The children were invited to the farm to play , to swim with other local children in the now infamous quarry . |
| 13 | When we arrived on the island , we were invited to the President 's palace . |
| 14 | From 1 September 1988 to 1 May 1991 , 194 consecutive patients were eligible for participation in the study and were invited to the outpatient clinic for an extra visit to answer a structured questionnaire and to have a cervical scrape taken for analysis for human papillomavirus . |
| 15 | At about midday the day after Oldfield was felled , members of the Press were invited to the office of genial WQ . |
| 16 | Representatives from every college in Scotland were invited to the latter . |
| 17 | Instead , he increasingly resorted to the device of the ad hoc Interministerial Council , in which the prime minister and relevant ministers , along with senior military or civilian officials , were invited to the Elysée to consider a specific problem or area of policy . |
| 18 | When they returned in triumph with the cup coach Corkin and his wife were invited to the reception . |
| 19 | Nominations for the LASMO Staffa Music Award were invited from the United Kingdom 's top music colleges and five finalists have already been selected to perform at a competition and festival of music . |
| 20 | We visited Edinburgh from time to time and one evening were invited by the Queen to a dance at Holyrood House . |
| 21 | This year 's Guild of Master Technicians members were invited by the Grand Master [ a.k.a . |
| 22 | Members of the UN were invited in the resolution to recognise the ROK . |
| 23 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 24 | A fluent speaker in Ukrainian , Remeynes was invited into the band to show them how it was done properly . |
| 25 | She was invited into the cockpit , and shown the controls , which meant nothing to her . |
| 26 | The interviews could be completed on the doorstep in as little as 10 minutes , but most lasted between 15 and 45 minutes and more often than not the fieldworker was invited into the house , offered tea and biscuits — and on one occasion two meat pies ! |
| 27 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 28 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 29 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 30 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |