Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 2 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 3 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 4 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |
| 5 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 6 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 7 | THE devastating impact drink-driving can have on family life was stressed yesterday at the launch of the Department of Transport 's £700,000 Christmas advertising campaign . |
| 8 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 9 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 10 | He came back from a serious back injury last season , but was injured again at the weekend . |
| 11 | BETTER nursing levels should be provided at the showpiece St John 's Hospital at Livingston , it was said yesterday at the end of a fatal accident inquiry . |
| 12 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 13 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 14 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 15 | Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts . |
| 16 | She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen , which was belted loosely at the waist . |
| 17 | But there was a consolation prize : Wolfgang 's little Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne — a tale of thwarted love put right by the intervention of a sorcerer — was performed privately at the home of Dr Mesmer , the celebrated inventor of magnetic mesmerism ( which Mozart was later to parody in Così fan tutte ) . |
| 18 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 19 | This matter was raised again at the Nomenclature Committee 's 1991 meeting , when it was noted that IUPAC recommended the ‘ f ’ spelling for sulphur in the 1990 edition of Nomenclature of inorganic chemistry while retaining the common UK spellings for caesium and aluminium . |
| 20 | The warning note that it was all going to be very different this time was sounded right at the beginning , with the efforts to establish a minority government . |
| 21 | Police today appealed to anyone who saw the killers ' car , a black Vauxhall Carlton , registration XXI 7255 , which was found later at the Shore Road , Greencastle . |
| 22 | Since then the district rate had risen steadily ; so too had rents , responsibility for which was laid firmly at the door of landlords and hence the Alliance : –Tote Labour and keep out Alliance landlords ' , concluded E Reed after a brief analysis of increases in rents ( Election leaflet 1920 ) . |
| 23 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 24 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 25 | The organization was run by an executive council who were responsible to a grand council , and was administered locally at the county level . |
| 26 | Mr Doyle 's body was brought ashore at the Pier Head on July 7 this year , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 27 | King 's Cross-Cambridge/Peterborough outer suburban services , a bodged combination of electric units to Hitchin and Royston , and DMUs and HSTs over the non-electric gap , was brought together at the end of the decade , courtesy of two collections of four-car 317s , a purpose-built second batch of twenty-five units , and thirteen of the earlier series . |
| 28 | It may be significant that Paul Black was involved heavily at the London end in the design of such schemes , but again not from the total viewpoint which in any case would probably be regarded as one of the weaknesses of the London development where there was less overview than obtained in Oxford . |
| 29 | Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour . |
| 30 | Her long fair hair was coiled demurely at the nape of her neck , and her nails were carefully cleansed of the scarlet polish she had worn on Saturday night . |