Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having released Gary , Nails was swimming at a phenomenal speed after another victim . |
| 2 | After a further Expert Group had met , unusually for an Asian-African body , in The Hague with participation from the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference , the Arab League and the Commonwealth Secretariat , a Model for Bilateral Agreement for the Service of Process and Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters was adopted at the Twenty-Fifth Session of the Committee in 1986 . |
| 3 | In January , the day before a conference on chemical weapons opened in Paris , the Romanian leader announced publicly that he would not accept a ban on chemical weapons unless a universal ban on nuclear weapons was agreed at the same time . |
| 4 | The nature of the movies was determined at an early stage and to study film history is to be reminded of the extent to which American and British cultural patterns in the modern era were determined within the context of the late nineteenth-century city . |
| 5 | This improvement in relations was reinforced at the biannual Franco-German summit in Paris on April 25-26 , when the two leaders also agreed to set up a joint study on the " future architecture of Europe 's security " . |
| 6 | A sample from the original PEG batch given to the patients was analysed at the same time . |
| 7 | The fury of the critics was directed at the intellectual poet who wrote deliberately like a simpleton in the Lyrical Ballads and the Poems of 1807 . |
| 8 | A new emerald-green carpet swept up to the landing and a new beautiful green — watered silk curtain with rich gold swags was hung at the long window above it . |
| 9 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 10 | THE CHIEF executive of National Car Parks was cleared at the Old Bailey in London yesterday of mounting a campaign of industrial espionage against his main rival , Europarks . |
| 11 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 12 | Soon after the murder , a huge wreath of white lilies was placed at the blood-stained scene . |
| 13 | A program on the synthesis of new antimalarial drugs was initiated at the National Institutes of Health in 1939 and formed the basis of a war program organized by the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development , National Research Council . |
| 14 | The first of the BCRS winter meetings was held at the Public Hall , Bishop 's Castle , on Friday , 6 October 1989 . |
| 15 | Employee concern over an article in the Independent newspaper concerning mammograms was raised at a recent meeting of the health and safety committee . |
| 16 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |