Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 2 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 3 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 4 | The timebase was set to record at 15 second intervals . |
| 5 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 6 | Not long afterwards , therefore , Havard was invited to call at Magdalen . |
| 7 | The public hearing of Virgin Atlantic 's application for a licence to fly between Gatwick and Newark was scheduled to begin at the Holborn offices of the Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA : the regulatory body of the airline industry ) on 1 March . |
| 8 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 9 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 10 | GDP was set to grow at around 3 per cent until 1997 , with unemployment declining slowly from 6.9 per cent in 1992 to 5.3 per cent in 1997 . |
| 11 | HAVING already installed 19 gas extinguishing systems in the Channel Tunnel , Fireater was approached to look at protecting risks using high expansion foam as the extinguishing media . |
| 12 | Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular . |
| 13 | A letter written six months before trial was sufficient in Mumby v R R Taylor ( Trading as Daisy Bus Service ) ( 1976 ) SC Library Transcript No 459 and the plaintiff was allowed to amend at trial even though doing so meant the defendant 's payment in was inadequate . |
| 14 | In all cases , transcription was found to initiate at position +1 ( Fig. 2 ) , ruling out the possibility that the decrease in CytR regulation is caused by the introduction of a new promoter . |
| 15 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 16 | By early November the rebel movement was reported to be in control of one-third of the country , and by the end of the month UNITA was thought to have at least nominal control of two-thirds of the country and thus to be in a stronger position than before the May 1991 Bicesse Peace Accord between the government and UNITA [ see p. 38180 ] . |
| 17 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 18 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 19 | A special Court of Governors was requested to meet at the infirmary on Saturday February 19th 1814 at 1 o'clock to elect a physician . |
| 20 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
| 21 | This mixture was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes . |
| 22 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |
| 23 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 24 | Within two years the choir was booked to sing at the Queen 's Hall in London , and a royal command performance soon followed at Balmoral . |
| 25 | Marching in fierce summer heat and unrelentingly harassed by Muslim mounted archers , the army was forced to halt at Hattin , in a waterless region , in the hope of being able to continue next day . |
| 26 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 27 | After an overnight fast ( from 2400 h , each subject was instructed to urinate at 0900 h and was then given 22.6 g glucose , 5 g lactulose , and 1 g L-rhamnose in 100 ml of distilled water . |
| 28 | At the end of this adaptation phase , the subjects withdrew their hand , the metre rule was replaced , and the subjects were retested under the experimental conditions in the order B , C , A. Under each condition , both before and after the adaptation phase , the subject was required to point at each of the four targets five times with the order in which they were required to point to the targets randomised so that the subjects did not become practised by repeated measurements in the same position . |
| 29 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 30 | In August 1988 , Dai Qing was invited to speak at a banquet in Hong Kong held in honour of Liu Binyan , the most famous ‘ investigative reporter ’ of the People 's Daily , the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party . |