Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 3 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 4 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 5 | When W. C. T. was two years old his mother gave birth to his brother John ; the pair of them were baptised together at the parish church on 21 January 1775 . |
| 6 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 7 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 8 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 9 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 10 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 11 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 12 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 13 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 14 | The awards , hosted by Sir David Frost , were presented today at a star studded lunch at London 's Grosvenor House attended by the celebrity winners and nominees . |
| 15 | But new barriers were built up at every step , so he continued to seek an opportunity to resign , if this could be done without disobedience to the will of God . |
| 16 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 17 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 18 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 19 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 20 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 21 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 22 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 23 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 24 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 25 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 26 | The accounts of the parish officers were audited annually at the Easter Vestry Meeting . |
| 27 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 28 | During each of the six weeks of the scheme , children from both sides of the divide in Belfast were brought together at the centre for a week of water sports . |
| 29 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 30 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |