Example sentences of "[was/were] make at [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company .
2 The draws for the prizes were made at Crystal Palace , the Dinner Dance and the Annual General Meeting .
3 The more sophisticated projects drawn up by Speransky in 1809 and Novosiltsev in 1819 were made at Alexander 's instigation and fell to the ground the moment he lost enthusiasm .
4 Boreholes were drilled and geophysical investigations were made at Shaftesbury , and a draft report has been prepared .
5 Where once Tory MPs were made at Eton , now they are graduates of home counties motels .
6 Landings were made at Wurzburg and Frankfurt , but only the pilot and navigator were allowed to get out .
7 These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit .
8 Kerseys were made at Midhurst and Petworth and leather workers were prominent in Horsham , one of the most flourishing towns in the Weald of Sussex , as well as a prime example of a town which , despite an outstanding rate of economic growth since the last general fiscal revaluation in 1334 , remained unplaced in the national league table ( see Table 2.7 ) .
9 The first moving images were made at Leeds Bridge
10 Six long service awards and one retirement presentation were made at Sekers Fabrics just prior to the Christmas break .
11 It was a thriller starring Donald Pleasence and Peter Vaughan , and was made at Anglia TV 's Norwich studios and on location in London .
12 HISTORY was made at Kelso yesterday when Countess Crossett was backed at 5,000-1 , the biggest price ever laid on a British racecourse .
13 Neutron activation analysis has shown that this series of pieces was made at Castilli in southern Italy .
14 It was made at Linlithgow , where the infant queen and her mother were then living .
15 Rostropovich 's new recording of Shostakovich 10 was made at Abbey Road in July 1989 , and is a complete success .
16 But one important discovery was made at Puerto San Julián : these southern plains were inhabited by enormous nomadic shepherds ( though they herded not sheep but the little wild llamas known as guanacos , and they dressed in their skins ) .
17 The film was made at Stobart House , a residential home for old people and included some shots of a class given by Margaret Charlwood .
18 A LITTLE piece of history was made at Darlington market at the weekend when fish trader Oswald Cloke put up his stall for the final time .
19 Finally in January 1169 peace was made at Montmirail .
20 A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption .
21 An impressive arrival was made at Edward Air Force Base ( AFB ) where flight testing was to commence on five engines — No 3 had been shut down after overspeeding .
22 After the bitter Allied reverses in 1915 , a new effort was made at Chantilly , Joffre 's headquarters , to devise a coherent military strategy — ‘ Unity of front ’ , in the phrase of the new French prime minister , Aristide .
23 They talked for a while about London and about the alterations which Topaz was making at Stone Towers .
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