Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Execution Dock , Wapping , east London , where , until the eighteenth century , pirates were hanged at low-water mark and their bodies left dangling in chains until three tides had flowed over them . |
| 2 | Just 15 of the new faces attended Oxbridge , half ( 57 ) were educated at other universities and a mere seven at those traditional breeding grounds , the polytechnics . |
| 3 | They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities . |
| 4 | It may look to some extent like the original , it may even retain traces of the original , but the many pieces that make the whole were added at different times and have been the subject of change and much repair work . |
| 5 | Additions were made at regular intervals and there was a pleasing rule that , even if a Sunday School scholar was unable to read , a book might nevertheless be lent out for the benefit of the family . |
| 6 | Conference rooms were equipped at great expense and then torn out as views on best practice changed ( Lee , et al. 1988 ) . |
| 7 | These men were landed at different places and conveyed to the depot ship . |
| 8 | All employees were involved at different stages and every member of the workforce completed a structured training session . |
| 9 | Small pots , each containing several one and two-month old Lolium temulentum plants grown at 20°C ( i.e. unstressed plants ) were viewed at various times and the images compared . |
| 10 | After discharge they were reviewed at weekly intervals and the volume of feed consumed was recorded daily throughout the four week period . |
| 11 | Things matter to the extent that they were discussed at considerable length and drafted with particular care . |
| 12 | The changes were aimed at developing industry and increasing exports , in particular to other countries apart from India . |
| 13 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 14 | Much of the actual mock-up assembly work was completed in Hawaii before the filming , but the preliminary moulding and construction was completed at Long Beach and then shipped to Pearl Harbor . |
| 15 | Relevant factors included ( 1 ) the hirer 's lack of expertise in the plant hire business ; ( 2 ) that the contract was arranged at short notice and was for a short period of hire ; it was therefore difficult for the plaintiff hirers to arrange insurance cover ; ( 3 ) that the clause was not the subject of negotiation ; ( 4 ) that the hirers had little or no control over the way the driver did his job . |
| 16 | He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics . |
| 17 | The following afternoon the sale was announced at Old Trafford and the name of the new chairman revealed . |
| 18 | The EMSA of extracts of COS cells transfected with this deletion mutant ( Figure 3b , plasmid V ) showed that the protein in the lower complex ( N-Oct 5B ) was expressed at high levels and that in the upper complex at low levels ( N-Oct 5A ) , which is also the pattern seen in brain extracts ( Figure 3a , lane 7 and 1 ) . |
| 19 | Originally this ‘ voice mail ’ was aimed at short-term retention and as one of the desk-top conveniences of the electronic office . |
| 20 | The leading barge was tilted at right angles and the rest floated gently apart . |