Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elongated single-aspect plans with hall-corridors on the entrance front were introduced to ensure even greater privacy from callers and servants , private wings were stepped back to create private sheltered garden areas , and the kitchen and staple offices were skilfully deployed at right angles to the main block to create sheltered L-plan forecourts . |
| 2 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 3 | These were mostly aimed at gullible Christians . |
| 4 | Minor reforms were mostly aimed at encouraging savers : Mr Major introduced TESSA , a tax-exempt savings account , and abolished stamp duty on shares . |
| 5 | ‘ Medicus ’ was a bit behind the times for Cooks , who , building on the work of their founder , had seized on the cycling craze of the 1890s and advertised cycling tours on the Continent which were especially aimed at single women . |
| 6 | Following the inability to trace records of certain interviews and the fact that other important papers were not presented at previous hearings of this matter , the fire in the building where the former South Midland Area 's archives were temporarily housed pending re-organisation was particularly unfortunate and can only be thought of as an unhappy coincidence . |
| 7 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 8 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 9 | ( It should be noted that the Phase 3 heads ' comments came from a group whose schools had only recently been brought into PNP and that expressions of dissatisfaction were also voiced at equivalent points in Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | Other location shots were also done at various locations , both civil and military , around Oahu including Schofield Barracks and Kolekole Pass . |
| 11 | Rumours circulating among some health authority staff that the chief executives of Darlington and South-West Durham would be replaced by one officer brought in from another area were hotly denied at regional level . |
| 12 | These were then discussed at regular meetings in which subsequent data collection would be planned . |
| 13 | Knuckledusters and leaded hosepipes were sometimes used at early BUF meetings , though Mosley rapidly banned their use by Blackshirts . |
| 14 | Dissatisfaction was mostly aimed at individual anomalies or inappropriate differentials within the organisation rather than those outside . |
| 15 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 16 | One shortcoming of the experiments reported here is that the effect of TAGH in inducing phosphorlyation of membranes in vitro was only detected at high doses of TAGH . |
| 17 | In 1769 George Coade died , bankrupt , and later in the year Eleanor joined Daniel Pincot , who was already established at Narrow Wall , Lambeth , making a form of artificial stone . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 19 | Mr Adams said the republican demand for a British withdrawal was not aimed at northern Protestants . |
| 20 | The injection was usually performed at different sites around the vessel and directly into the vessel . |
| 21 | Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day . |
| 22 | Remembering that her car was still abandoned at Central Station , she took a taxi to where she had left it , and was relieved to find it still waiting there . |
| 23 | The Clamshell style of demonstration — carefully planned , non-violent protest with a deliberate avoidance of confrontation with the authorities — was quickly followed at other reactor sites . |
| 24 | It is unknown how long Leapor worked for Susanna Jennens and the Chauncys , or if she was also employed at other houses . |
| 25 | The exercise was also aimed at big business — experts from some of Britain 's largest chemical companies were invited , to show them first hand the consequences should chemcial cargoes be released in such an accident . |
| 26 | Americans have been saluting Presidents by means of song since George Washington 's time , one Philip Phile composing ‘ The President 's March ’ which was supposedly played at Honest George 's inauguration . |
| 27 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture the thing in volume at 40MHz until recently , although it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 28 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture in volume at 40MHz until recently though it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 29 | The directive was then discussed at great length in the Council of Ministers . |
| 30 | This article was primarily directed at fellow members of the National Front . |