Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 2 | Not for the first time , seats were wrecked at the showpiece stadium and maintenance men have spent the day at Ibrox assessing the full extent of the damage at the Celtic end of the ground . |
| 3 | Titled ‘ The New Democratic Pictures ’ , a selection of which were previewed at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark in September , they feature the first nude portraits of the artists . |
| 4 | She did mind , though , and , as they were met at the emergency entrance with a wheeled stretcher-bed for Faye and a paged message for Tom summoning him to the renal unit to attend urgently to another patient , her concern for Faye 's condition battled for priority in her thoughts with painful images of Marise Wyspianski glowing in the magic aura of Tom 's kiss , and of Tom himself , at the wheel of the Mercedes just moments ago , staring so grimly into the Christmas Eve traffic . |
| 5 | The two 15-feet-high statues were manufactured at the state plant in St Petersburg but , following the soviet collapse , were never claimed by those who commissioned them . |
| 6 | Houses were built at the street frontage , whilst the interiors of each square or chequer provided garden space . |
| 7 | Yesterday , busloads of lads were disgorged at the city square to make their feelings plain . |
| 8 | The announcements were made at the InterOp conference in Washington . |
| 9 | The Life of Udalric of Augsburg refers lyrically to the specially composed chants which were performed at the Palm Sunday services on the hill called ‘ Perleihc ’ by the canons and boys of Augsburg cathedral . |
| 10 | Many of the paintings were shown at the Museo Civico Archeologico , Bologna , the Pinacoteca Civica and Chiesa del Rosario , Cento , and the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt , before the present showing . |
| 11 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 12 | This is not the place to discuss the report at length , but to mention one or two points that were aired at the press conference to introduce it . |
| 13 | You were employed at the Child Poverty Action Group on the basis of a generous grant from the Noel Buxton Trust and the City Parochial Foundation . |
| 14 | Other leading Whigs were invited to these meetings as necessary , whilst larger meetings were convened at the Rose Tavern when tactics needed to be communicated to the party faithful prior to activity in Parliament . |
| 15 | However , on November 26th 1676 , six constables , four beadles and several others were set at the chapel doors in order to arrest Baxter . |
| 16 | 32 people were arrested at the party site , which had been occupied by a group of travellers . |
| 17 | Elderly residents of St George 's Court , Sheerness , Kent were entertained at the tea party given by the 1st Sheppey Pack . |
| 18 | The IDA were represented at the press conference by John Gannon , the IDA 's Executive Director , and Thomas Linehan , its Regional Manager for Cork . |
| 19 | They were seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 20 | First steps were taken at the HSE conference in Jakarta . |
| 21 | Added to this there was the alarming , although on closer inspection ambiguous , evidence of concerted communist plans for Asia as a whole that were discussed at the World Federation of Democratic Youth Conference in Calcutta in February 1948 . |
| 22 | C 5 -unmethylated phasmid DNA was incubated with S-adenosyl-[ 3 H ] -methionine and Dcm or Dcm/Cys177Ser ; aliquots of the reaction mixture were removed at the time points indicated and DNA precipitated with 20% aqueous TCA . |
| 23 | Leeds City 's fixtures were taken over by Port Vale , while the players were auctioned at the Hotel Metropole in the strangest football sale of the century . |
| 24 | The two were combined at the planning stage , as illustrated by the written analysis to the County Development Plan of 1962 . |
| 25 | Fingers across the map to retrace their journey — from the New Inn they went to the English chapel , walked to the shore , saw the Marischal College , were welcomed at the Town House , viewed Old Aberdeen , looked at the Old College , visited the King 's College where Sir Alexander Gordon was professor of Medicine , and visited two bookshops . |
| 26 | Both were constructed at the Chrzanow Locomotive Works in Poland , one in 1954 and work on restoring these , plus regauging them for use on the centre 's narrow gauge line will start in the near future . |
| 27 | Next morning , the trumpets were blown at the North Gate and the Knight Marischal 's banner hoisted , with shouted demands for King Edward to appear . |
| 28 | The new drives were launched at the Comdex PC exhibition in Las Vegas , so our editor should be able to tell you all about them . |
| 29 | During a heated debate , accusations of lack of democracy and ‘ Ku-Klux-Klan-type secrecy ’ were levelled at the executive members of Dunoon and Cowal Tourist Board . |
| 30 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |