Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 2 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 3 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 4 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 5 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 6 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 7 | Two additional changes ( also only relevant to joining a new scheme ) were brought in at the same time . |
| 8 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 9 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 10 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 11 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 12 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 13 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 14 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 15 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 16 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |
| 17 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 18 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 19 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 20 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 21 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 22 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 23 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 24 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 25 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 26 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 27 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 28 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 29 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 30 | Lawrence had been drafted into the lineup following a finger injury suffered by Chris Lewis , while Botham was called up at the 11th hour to win his 100th cap when Derek Pringle 's sore back failed to respond to treatment . |