Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 3 | He had been tried jointly with another businessman , Jeffrey Smith , who was eventually cleared at a retrial . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Re-released by Old Gold in 1988 , the record sold well but was only aimed at a collectors and oldie jukebox market . |
| 6 | He followed her eyes but found she was only staring at a door . |
| 7 | The " mature man " was thus placed at a distance equally from the " blind " drive of the capitalist marketplace and a democratic process defined in quantitative or mechanical terms . |
| 8 | The Sussex coast was best seen at a distance , though , for proximity to the sea causes human beings to create great ugliness . |
| 9 | They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons , pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds ; Helen grabbed Edward 's arm to hurry him on but he was already gazing at a row of hares suspended by their feet from a rack . |
| 10 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 11 | Yes , in fact I was just looking at a figure , a four million pound campaign in total is going to be launched , is it not , to persuade Britons to take holidays in their own country . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal held that the notice was not incorporated in the contract , since it was not displayed at a spot visible to plaintiff before she made the contract . |
| 13 | I belatedly realized I was not looking at a reproduction . |
| 14 | He was not sitting at a piano . |
| 15 | The proposal , from Notre Dame College , a Catholic college in Glasgow , was received sympathetically , but was not approved at a visit to the College in December . |
| 16 | The FDP , which had first emerged in November 1989 [ see p. 37025 ] , was formally constituted at a congress on Feb. 4 as a sister party to the West German FDP , with Bruno Menzel as acting party chair and Jürgen Neubert and Dieter Tietz as deputy chairs . |
| 17 | On Oct. 17 the 4,200-strong Franco-German joint brigade ( agreed in principle in November 1987 — see p. 35665 ) was formally constituted at a ceremony in Malmsheim , near Stuttgart [ see p. 37212 for its October establishment at partial strength ] . |
| 18 | The new ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , controlling 216 of the 299 seats in the South Korean legislature , was formally inaugurated at a merger convention held in Seoul on Feb. 9 . |
| 19 | The CIS was formally established at a meeting in Alma Ata , when assurances were given to the world community that single control would be maintained over the nuclear weapons on former Soviet territory , and that the treaty obligations of the Soviet Union would be respected by the newly independent states . |
| 20 | Murder was always solved at a cost , sometimes to himself , more often to others . |
| 21 | It became clear that Iran was still aiming at a battlefield victory , posing specific preconditions for an end to the war : reparations and the removal of Saddam and his entire regime . |
| 22 | Maxie was still staring at a half cup of coffee . |
| 23 | She was later seen at a hamburger stand in the car park behind the Guest House where she met her death . |
| 24 | The crisis was temporarily defused at a meeting of the PS executive committee on March 20 , when delegates approved a general statement of intent , confirmed Mauroy as first secretary , and redistributed senior party posts to reflect the respective strengths of the various factions . |
| 25 | It was also discussed at a farewell dinner last night for the former BBC director general , Sir Michael Checkland , hosted by the Royal Television Society . |
| 26 | This was because it was often bought at a high . |
| 27 | This was originally set at a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 100% , although recent reclassifications have increased the minimum échelle to 80% . |
| 28 | Half way across the field to the ditch where a jeep was now straining at a rope attached to the emerging car , the Substitute lit on a possible solution . |
| 29 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 30 | The rapid reaction force issue was hotly debated at a meeting of the WEU Assembly in Paris on June 3-6 , when the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd launched a forceful defence of the WEU 's links with NATO and stressed the importance of collaboration with the USA . |