Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 2 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 3 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 4 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 5 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 6 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 7 | The plea for private sector cash was made yesterday at a seminar organised by Strathclyde Police as part of the Operation Blade crackdown on knife crime , started at the beginning of the month . |
| 8 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 9 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 10 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 11 | The cheque was handed over at a party held in the Dundonald Ice Bowl . |
| 12 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 13 | The body of twenty three year-old Pardeep Mattu was found yesterday at a house on the town 's Walnut Tree estate . |
| 14 | Gemma , 11 , was found alone at a flat in Hammersmith a fortnight after her mother left for a month 's holiday with a male friend on the Costa del Sol . |
| 15 | Nazarbayev was sworn in at a session of the republican Supreme Soviet on Dec. 10 , at which the republic dropped the words " soviet socialist " from its title to become the Republic of Kazakhstan . |
| 16 | Her appointment was announced yesterday at a lunch held in her honour at the university . |
| 17 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |
| 18 | The £5.5 million development plan was passed unanimously at a meeting of Edinburgh District planning committee . |
| 19 | The agreement to form separate groups was worked out at a meeting on Feb. 10 at the presidential residence in Lany , attended also by Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel , who numbered many Liberal Club supporters among his closest associates but who had remained outside the conflict . |
| 20 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 21 | Acknowledging that austere fiscal policies introduced in July 1988 [ see p. 36698 ] were responsible for the fall , analysts noted it was achieved only at a cost of increased unemployment and bankruptcies . |
| 22 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |
| 23 | Ironically , before Monday night 's murder in north Belfast , the only other woman to be killed by terrorists this year was singled out at a flat a short distance away . |
| 24 | A Sinn Fein member , father of six Peter Gallagher , 44 , of Toomebridge , Co Antrim , was gunned down at a builder 's yard in Belfast , on Wednesday . |
| 25 | The controversial singer vowed to give up after she was booed off-stage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert in New York in October . |