Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview was duly shown at the end of the third broadcast of the obituary programme and was very well received . |
| 2 | As he spoke , he looked at Ludovico , who was furiously plucking at the strings of his racket and gazing at the ground . |
| 3 | Gould was verbally abused at The Hawthorns before his departure and at one protest supporters paraded with a coffin on their shoulders . |
| 4 | The importance of the Cold War was strikingly underlined at the time by a comment of the future American director of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 5 | Activity of SOD in serum reached a maximum of about 100 U/ml after 150 minutes when SOD was subcutaneously injected at a dose of 50000 U/kg . |
| 6 | The lack of a proper repair works was keenly felt at the end of the First World War , when the fleet was very run-down . |
| 7 | It was eventually decided at the Council meeting that farmers should be approached about renting out a plot of land for a short time for the travellers whilst the search for a permanent site continued . |
| 8 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 9 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 10 | This was eventually resolved at the Luxembourg meeting , with Switzerland accepting unrestricted passage for up to 28 tonnes axle weight and 50 licences per day for 28-38 tonne trucks , and Austria agreeing to increase licences for EC lorries to 1,300,000 for 1992 , but insisting that annual ceilings thereafter should embody a progressive reduction in pollutant output . |
| 11 | Alan Parton , Ian Shepherd and the staff of JM Burslem treated us all to a wonderful welcome and an excellent buffet lunch which was most appreciated at the end of a long and winding road . |
| 12 | Bill was badly humiliated at the airfield today . |
| 13 | He was badly stung at the time , but later , being the reasonable chap he was , he saw it as reasonable . |
| 14 | Thatcherism was widely viewed at the time as a mad right-wing aberration which the people would not stand for long . |
| 15 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 16 | I do n't say that this is so , only that the allegation was widely made at the time . |
| 17 | ( Mitterrand was widely interpreted at the conference as having warned that francophone African states which did not adopt multiparty democracy would be less favourably considered in France 's future allocation of aid . ) |
| 18 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 19 | The 387ft-tall Commercial Union tower , designed by architects GMW and now a shattered shell , was widely praised at the time of its completion in the late 1960s as a successful adaptation of the modern American commercial style , fronting a Manhatten style piazza . |
| 20 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 21 | It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife . |
| 22 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife . |
| 23 | If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband , it would be appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title , although it seems to be accepted in practice that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase . |
| 24 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is usual to accept that the title was properly investigated at the time of purchase . |
| 25 | His flat was sparsely furnished at the time . |
| 26 | Jacques Delors actually was warmly received at the Trades Union Congress as ‘ frère Jacques ’ . |
| 27 | Thereafter , saline was constantly infused at a rate of 0.1 ml/min through the gall bladder catheter with an ASID Bonz PP infusion pump ( Germany ) . |
| 28 | The two smaller ‘ outlier ’ setts would have been completely destroyed by the planned construction work , and so were completely excavated , while the third was only excavated at the end to be affected by the construction . |
| 29 | His domination of the set was only threatened at the death when the Swede , trying anything in a do-or-die effort , pegged him back to deuce from 40-love when Becker served for the set at 5–4 . |
| 30 | The full horror of Crocker 's position was only revealed at the end of 1984 . |