Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 2 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 3 | The re-development took place while retaining the original ( 1910 ) granite and Portland stone façade on Great Tower Street and this was replicated at the rear of the building and down the open side on Idol Lane . |
| 4 | The home ranked with the church as the place of religious allegiance , and this was symbolized at the beginning and end of the day by family prayers . |
| 5 | This was followed at the weekend by reports alleging that Mrs Mandela was implicated in the death of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , who was murdered in his Soweto surgery in 1989 . |
| 6 | The Anfielders did not have permission to approach the player , but this was granted at a dinner with the Aberdeen party that evening . |
| 7 | Indignation over the military intervention in Panama by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ; 37271 ] led to the withdrawal of co-operation by Peru in anti-drugs operations , but this was resumed at the end of that month . |
| 8 | Another example of this was seen at the nest of a pair of European eagle owls , which are large birds weighing up to 4 kg . |
| 9 | And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church . |
| 10 | The Crown alleged that this was done at the instigation of the appellant with knowledge that the money should have been delivered up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 11 | This was echoed at the bottom of the dress . |
| 12 | All this was achieved at the cost of only two S.A.S. soldiers killed — Captain Roy Bradford and a trooper who was a mechanic for the jeeps , both casualties in the one incident — and seven men wounded . |
| 13 | Recordings of sleep patterns again showed that this was achieved at the expense of REM and Stage 2 sleep , leaving Stage 4 sleep levels unaffected . |
| 14 | This was achieved at the expense of Turkey , following a series of wars . |
| 15 | [ This was inserted at the insistence of United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . ] |
| 16 | This was held at The Community College , Bishop 's Castle at 7.30 p.m. on Friday , 3 November 1989 and was attended by 33 members . |
| 17 | This was celebrated at the Anvil Hotel in Dorset with his colleagues and wife Giselle . |
| 18 | Other transactions — this was included at the planning stage to allow for transactions that might not be predicted . |
| 19 | This was discussed at the beginning of the previous chapter , but it needs to be stated again that there seem to be comparatively few and small areas on the shelves at the present day where sediment is actively accumulating . |
| 20 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 21 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 22 | This was launched at the meeting at St Margaret 's Hope on Saturday 9 March . |
| 23 | This was launched at the meeting . |
| 24 | All this was foreshadowed at the height of the war and in the heart of the Fens by the testimonies of two passionate and knowledgeable countrymen , one a bird-watcher , the other a farmer . |
| 25 | Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride . |
| 26 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 27 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |
| 28 | I have within me the Enchantment of the Beastline that was created at the beginning of Tara 's history . |
| 29 | It is this spontaneous participation in the being of God in whom is " full rest " ( 43.314b. – 114 ) that was lost at the Fall . |
| 30 | If I was cynical , Bill , I 'd say it 's a good way of making a bit of extra money , and that was confirmed at a meeting I went to of motor traders the other day . |