Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elongated single-aspect plans with hall-corridors on the entrance front were introduced to ensure even greater privacy from callers and servants , private wings were stepped back to create private sheltered garden areas , and the kitchen and staple offices were skilfully deployed at right angles to the main block to create sheltered L-plan forecourts . |
| 2 | The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin . |
| 3 | These were mostly aimed at gullible Christians . |
| 4 | Minor reforms were mostly aimed at encouraging savers : Mr Major introduced TESSA , a tax-exempt savings account , and abolished stamp duty on shares . |
| 5 | ‘ Medicus ’ was a bit behind the times for Cooks , who , building on the work of their founder , had seized on the cycling craze of the 1890s and advertised cycling tours on the Continent which were especially aimed at single women . |
| 6 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 7 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 8 | ( It should be noted that the Phase 3 heads ' comments came from a group whose schools had only recently been brought into PNP and that expressions of dissatisfaction were also voiced at equivalent points in Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 9 | Other location shots were also done at various locations , both civil and military , around Oahu including Schofield Barracks and Kolekole Pass . |
| 10 | Rumours circulating among some health authority staff that the chief executives of Darlington and South-West Durham would be replaced by one officer brought in from another area were hotly denied at regional level . |
| 11 | These were then discussed at regular meetings in which subsequent data collection would be planned . |
| 12 | Knuckledusters and leaded hosepipes were sometimes used at early BUF meetings , though Mosley rapidly banned their use by Blackshirts . |
| 13 | Dissatisfaction was mostly aimed at individual anomalies or inappropriate differentials within the organisation rather than those outside . |
| 14 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 15 | One shortcoming of the experiments reported here is that the effect of TAGH in inducing phosphorlyation of membranes in vitro was only detected at high doses of TAGH . |
| 16 | In 1769 George Coade died , bankrupt , and later in the year Eleanor joined Daniel Pincot , who was already established at Narrow Wall , Lambeth , making a form of artificial stone . |
| 17 | The injection was usually performed at different sites around the vessel and directly into the vessel . |
| 18 | Oh that was that was always done at new year time , or at least It was n't so much new year day as we called Yule Day . |
| 19 | Remembering that her car was still abandoned at Central Station , she took a taxi to where she had left it , and was relieved to find it still waiting there . |
| 20 | The Clamshell style of demonstration — carefully planned , non-violent protest with a deliberate avoidance of confrontation with the authorities — was quickly followed at other reactor sites . |
| 21 | It is unknown how long Leapor worked for Susanna Jennens and the Chauncys , or if she was also employed at other houses . |
| 22 | The exercise was also aimed at big business — experts from some of Britain 's largest chemical companies were invited , to show them first hand the consequences should chemcial cargoes be released in such an accident . |
| 23 | Americans have been saluting Presidents by means of song since George Washington 's time , one Philip Phile composing ‘ The President 's March ’ which was supposedly played at Honest George 's inauguration . |
| 24 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture the thing in volume at 40MHz until recently , although it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 25 | Design flaws made it hard to manufacture in volume at 40MHz until recently though it was originally targeted at high clock rates . |
| 26 | The directive was then discussed at great length in the Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | This article was primarily directed at fellow members of the National Front . |
| 28 | For example , autonomous grass roots organization at the workplace was officially tolerated at certain times , despite continuing repression , and the introduction of collective bargaining from the 1960s , particularly in the modern , foreign-controlled sectors of manufacturing , loosened the state 's tight control over the regulation of labour . |