Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 2 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 3 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 4 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 5 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 6 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 7 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 8 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 9 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 10 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 11 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 12 | The music was turned down at the request of a fat man who was actually trying to sleep through all the noise . |
| 13 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 14 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 15 | In June 1991 , a draft welfare charter was drawn up at the University of Witwatersrand recommending that ‘ free and compulsory education until the age of 16 be introduced ’ . |
| 16 | As I recall , he had not been initially so preoccupied with the peace treaty when it was drawn up at the end of the Great War , and I think it is fair to say that his interest was prompted not so much by an analysis of the treaty , but by his friendship with Herr Karl-Heinz Bremann . |
| 17 | The Statement of principles and Objectives of the Federation was drawn up at the conference and signed by all the organizations present at the conference ( see Annex ) . |
| 18 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 19 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 20 | His hair was tied back at the nape of his neck . |
| 21 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |
| 22 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 23 | It was now necessary to be able to detect adulterants , and in October 1842 a laboratory ( the ancestor of the later Laboratory of the Government Chemist ) was set up at the excise department headquarters in Broad Street , London , staffed solely by George Phillips . |
| 24 | The company was set up at the height of the property boom . |
| 25 | The Arch of Trajan in Ancona ( A.D. 113 ) was set up at the harbour entrance astride a causeway . |
| 26 | A parliamentary commission investigating the activities of the security services within the Federal Military Department ( EMD ) ( primarily P-26 — which was set up at the time of the Cold War to provide resistance in case of invasion — and the extraordinary secret service P-27 ) presented its report on Nov. 23 , 1990 . |
| 27 | It was set up at the time of the publication of the Beveridge report by a group of young MPs who had strong links with the forces . |
| 28 | It was set up at the outbreak of war , when the British wanted to explain events to the African population in East Africa , and became self-supporting within two years . |
| 29 | When that palazzo fell into disrepair the door was brought here , to Via Filodrammatici , where it was set up at the entrance to a convent . |
| 30 | In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] . |