Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end . |
| 2 | Barricades were erected at the precise boundary of the two religious communities in an area of no-man's-land between a Catholic cathedral and a Protestant church , both rumoured to be threatened by attack . |
| 3 | They were halted at the outer guardhouse at the aforementioned trench , to identify themselves . |
| 4 | Some of the luggage was mislaid and after claims were placed at the lost luggage desk , it eventually turned up which meant a dash across the city out our ‘ 5-star accommodation ’ , the Vienna Marriott Hotel . |
| 5 | These lessons were given at the right time and were invaluable in later life . |
| 6 | Six C&P employees were treated at the occupational health centre before returning to work and two members of the public attended hospital but were later discharged . |
| 7 | records were broken at the National Powerboat championships at fairford in Gloucestershire … winner was midlander Mark Rolls … |
| 8 | The government , the ruling National Party ( NP ) ( which sent a separate delegation ) , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Inkatha Freedom Party were joined at the preparatory meeting by the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , the Democratic Party ( DP ) , the South African Communist Party , various other political parties , delegations from the 10 " homelands " or bantustans , and representatives of the Indian and Coloured communities . |
| 9 | Kazakhstan also introduced banking restrictions ; goods and money were stopped at the Kirgiz border . |
| 10 | They were painted at the Royal Academy Schools when I was a student immediately before the closing of the Schools in 1940 . |
| 11 | The first question we asked was , how many of the words spoken by the subject were posted at the correct place in the word lattice ? |
| 12 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 13 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 14 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 15 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 16 | A washroom and WC were included at the left corner of the new room . |
| 17 | The arguments about when to leave a casualty were addressed at the American Heart Association 's national conference on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in 1992 and were rehearsed in detail in its proceedings . |
| 18 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |
| 19 | The architect 's plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899 . |
| 20 | She became an accomplished pianist and several of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy . |
| 21 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 22 | His most recent ideas for stage sets were seen at the recent production of Hölderlin 's ‘ Oedipus ’ at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum . |
| 23 | Two Spanish epidemiological surveys on the Guillain-Barré syndrome were presented at the scientific debate of the Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance ( Madrid , health ministry , 30 January 1992 ) . |
| 24 | In the USA , until 1986 , all gains and losses on futures contracts were taxed at the long-term rate of tax , while gains and losses on shares held for less than six months were taxed at the higher short-term rate . |
| 25 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 26 | Management were told at the ritual claim submission in London that Ford workers at the 21 plants wanted to be the best paid in the motor industry . |
| 27 | Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association . |
| 28 | Our Rolls was directed straight in and we were deposited at the Grand Hall entrance . |
| 29 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
| 30 | No breaks in the cold chain were documented at the central storage facility , although vaccines kept at the study site were discarded on two occasions after power failures that lasted several hours . |