Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were done once at the other house were n't they ? |
| 2 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 3 | THE Inland Revenue 's bankruptcy petition against Sir Edward du Cann was dismissed yesterday at the High Court in London . |
| 4 | He was educated locally at the National School and later at Wesley College , Sheffield , before becoming apprenticed to a wool spinner , John Brigg . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 6 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 7 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 8 | Shorter himself was displayed prominently at the busiest intersection of the moor , Wishmoor Cross , where three counties and four parishes meet . |
| 9 | Lewis , having been missed by a diving Moin after edging Akram , was yorked comprehensively at the other end . |
| 10 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 11 | Although opposition to the bondholders ' position was voiced loudly at the 1978 Annual General Meeting — when R.C.E. ( Robert ) Naish ( a non-bondholder with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare ) became President — it at least caused the bondholders to consider the question of their status . |
| 12 | The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance . |
| 13 | We on this side of the House will continue to propose and to support policies which give practical effect to the hope for a new and durable world order of peace , liberty , and prosperity which was expressed again at the United Nations last week . |
| 14 | AN AMERICAN lawyer , Thomas Ward , was cleared yesterday at the Old Bailey in London of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness after the brewery giant 's successful takeover bid for Distillers . |
| 15 | For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected . |
| 16 | This was aimed less at the poor themselves than at those able to help them and ‘ not able to make use of Physitians and Chirurgians ’ . |
| 17 | The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends . |
| 18 | Quality assurance in Chemistry was the subject of the Radio-chemical Method 's Group 's AGM meeting , which was held recently at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington . |
| 19 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |
| 20 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |