Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 9 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 10 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 11 | Four members of the press were allowed in at a time . |
| 12 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 13 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 14 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 15 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 16 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 17 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 18 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 19 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 20 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 21 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 22 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 23 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 24 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 25 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 26 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
| 27 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |
| 28 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 29 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 30 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |