Example sentences of "it was [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 2 | It was hidden at the bottom of a drawer , remember . |
| 3 | This exhibition has been sent from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , where it was seen at the end of last year in a larger version and under the title ‘ Celebrating Calder ’ . |
| 4 | And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well . |
| 5 | It was undertaken at the request of the school by John Swain and Carole Thirlaway ( from the local polytechnic ) and involved the following steps : |
| 6 | Begun as a Romanesque basilica in 1200 , it was completed at the west end in Gothic style about 1350 . |
| 7 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 8 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 9 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 10 | Yesterday it was played at a meeting of wildlife agencies called in Kirkwall to discuss the best way to move the whales out of Scapa Flow . |
| 11 | Worcester was well-positioned to fulfil this role , for it was sited at the edge of an arable area to the south and east and a pastoral zone to the north and west . |
| 12 | Ruotolo apparently submitted , but then published a pamphlet attacking current exegesis , especially as it was taught at the Biblicum . |
| 13 | It was situated at the bottom of York Street along with Edward , Vulcan and Howard Streets , York Street ran off Cleveland Street beside the main rail line . |
| 14 | Throughout the Middle Ages it was situated at the centre of a major marcher lordship , guarding one of the principal river crossings from southern England into Wales . |
| 15 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |
| 16 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 17 | A STOLEN caravan was stripped of over £2,000 worth of property when it was stored at an East Durham farm , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month . |
| 19 | The Fleet , it was decided at a meeting of CIS Defence Ministers ( excluding Azerbaijan and Moldova ) , would not form part of the CIS strategic forces . |
| 20 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 21 | Because of the uncertainties , and to forestall the predicted developments , it was decided at the Committee stage of the Bill to redraft it to ensure that these were explicitly within the new law . |
| 22 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 23 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
| 24 | Now then you was put on Premeren it was given at the hospital , was n't it ? |
| 25 | It was given at the launching of what was Britain 's largest liner at the time , the S.S. Aquitania . |
| 26 | Of course this famous pamphlet was a much more practical political publication than The German Ideology and it was written at a time of tremendous political ferment . |
| 27 | Conrad 's Heart of Darkness is the first English modernist novel , it was written at the break of the century , a time of great change and movement ( for example , electricity , airplanes , telephone were all invented , democracy and freud emerged . ) |
| 28 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 29 | ‘ We say that the letter was written by Paula Gilfoyle but it was written at the defendant 's request and dictation and no such person as Nigel existed . |
| 30 | According to the Observer on 6 February 1966 , it was revealed at a meeting of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee that a ‘ private and anonymous circular ’ had been distributed with the warning that it should be destroyed immediately after reading . |