Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 2 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 3 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 4 | The awards , hosted by Sir David Frost , were presented today at a star studded lunch at London 's Grosvenor House attended by the celebrity winners and nominees . |
| 5 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 6 | Plans to prevent acid house parties in the South-east were drawn up at a meeting of senior police officers and council leaders . |
| 7 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 8 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 9 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 10 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 11 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 12 | To obtain maximum depletion , beads and cells were spun together at a ratio of 5:1 in two successive rounds . |
| 13 | The Genn study reported that 38 per cent of applicants were represented either at a hearing or during settlement negotiations , though 70 per cent had sought advice about their application . |
| 14 | We were seated downstairs at an inglenook table , ideal for lovers but a bit isolated from the humanity of the dining-room which hummed with mix of city and creative folk sharing confidences about God and Mammon . |
| 15 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 16 | Four members of the press were allowed in at a time . |
| 17 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 18 | Last night , two Catholics were gunned down at a shop on the Stewartstown Road , west Belfast and one is believed to have been seriously wounded . |
| 19 | Details of the plans were outlined yesterday at a conference in London on offshore installation work organised by the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects . |
| 20 | Once again , the two kings were stranded together at a time when the kingdom of Sicily was at a particularly explosive juncture in its long and turbulent history . |
| 21 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 22 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |