Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its various creepers , wisteria , magnolia grandiflora and Russian vine had been checked at the level of the first floor . |
| 2 | Her trunk had been placed at the foot of her bed , whose curtains , in harmony with those at the window , were of heavy glazed chintz patterned with flowers . |
| 3 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 4 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 5 | Hilda Lodge said that some disappointment had been expressed at the lack of equipment used in display items and very little live piano music , which is our forte , was used to accompany them . |
| 6 | Laboratory studies in zoology had been established at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard under Louis Agassiz in the mid century . |
| 7 | First , a gap had been found at the bottom end of the market , conveying ( or transferring ) small terraced houses with local authority mortgages . |
| 8 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 9 | The key had been left at the hotel pending their arrival . |
| 10 | Often the types of process in one class are very wide , consequently changing from one use to another can lead to odour nuisance yet no planning permission is required unless a condition had been attached at the time of the original planning permission prohibiting a change of use even within the same use class . |
| 11 | Much of the recent work had been written at the ‘ macro ’ level , relying on statistics of national income or on general surveys of the economy . |
| 12 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 13 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 14 | Shortly afterwards Dawes wrote to the Board complaining that a flag had been hoisted at the workhouse on the occasion of his leaving . |
| 15 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
| 16 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 17 | A place had been laid at the foot , opposite across the long surface , to Ruth 's place . |
| 18 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 19 | The Billabong had been saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 20 | That heroic total-amputee had been rescued at the same time as the sculpts of the Sagramoso dynasty were all reduced to dust . |
| 21 | Yet she felt , unable to help herself , a certain irrational joyfulness , as though an end and a beginning had been reached at the same time . |
| 22 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 23 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |
| 24 | The proposal for such a register had been endorsed at the G-7 summit of leading industrialized countries in London in July [ see p. 38321-22 ] . |
| 25 | Later in that decade the British media announced , with some pride , that the eminent scientist Sir John Cockroft was ‘ 90 per-cent certain ’ that controlled thermonuclear fusion had been achieved at the Harwell Laboratory . |
| 26 | All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment . |
| 27 | Asked which of the three interpretations of the embargo had been employed at the meeting , he replied : ‘ Our thinking that day was fairly flexible . |
| 28 | Suppose that an anti-Conservative voter could know his first-preference candidate had been eliminated at the first count , and how other anti-Conservative candidates had fared . |
| 29 | Negotiations between the DNU-MRH and the government had been initiated at the Central America presidential summit held in Nicaragua in April 1990 [ see p. 37372 ] . |
| 30 | Signs for the cloakrooms and toilets were already in place , and two posts and a rope had been set at the top of the stairs to keep visitors out of the private apartments . |