Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was realised at an early stage that the earthwork plan belied a very complex situation and that there were clearly at least two phases of development . |
| 2 | As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training . |
| 3 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |
| 4 | A paper describing the inventory was presented at an international workshop in Prague . |
| 5 | It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection . |
| 6 | Precisely this question was raised at an earlier stage in our discussions , and I pointed out then that the Government had not come clean at all on the issue of freight and what would happen to freight . |
| 7 | Milan Drenchev , the leader of the Nikola Petkov Bulgarian National Agrarian Union ( BZNS ) , was replaced at an extraordinary party congress on Feb. 15-16 by Anastasiya Moser , the daughter of a noted agrarian leader , G. M. Dimitrov , who had emigrated to the USA in the mid 1940s . |
| 8 | He was sprawled at an unusual angle , arms and legs stuck out in all directions . |
| 9 | It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken . |
| 10 | A base metal exploration programme was abandoned at an early stage leaving a significant IP chargeability anomaly , without accompanying magnetic anomaly , untested ( MEG 113 ) . |
| 11 | I was involved at an abstract level with the struggles of the Vietnamese and the Palestinians far away , or the miners ( in 1974 ) nearer home . |
| 12 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 13 | It would be anomalous if the right to rescind was lost at an earlier date when the misrepresentation does not become a term of the contract . |
| 14 | Only four years later , in 1965 , at the Congress in Llandudno , Wales , the issue was revived by a motion which was debated at an extraordinary meeting . |
| 15 | The nature of the movies was determined at an early stage and to study film history is to be reminded of the extent to which American and British cultural patterns in the modern era were determined within the context of the late nineteenth-century city . |
| 16 | It was not until the setting up of the trust in 1977 ( it was conceived at an Irish dinner party at Clandeboye House in County Down ) that money for such projects came into reach and the banks would even listen . |
| 17 | Sigeberht the Good , king of the eastern Saxons , over whom Oswiu 's influence had been considerable , was murdered at an unknown date ( but well before 664 for Sigeberht 's successor was dead by 664 ) and replaced by Swithhelm , son of Seaxbald ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) . |
| 18 | HCIMA Sri Lanks was launched at an inaugural meeting at Mount Lavinia . |
| 19 | The new engine plant was launched at an elaborate ceremony yesterday , with music provided by the brass section of the Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Orchestra . |
| 20 | The new engine plant was launched at an elaborate ceremony yesterday , with musical accompaniment from the brass section of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . |