Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as central London headquarters , branches were known to exist at Hackney , Kentish Town , Bristol , Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 2 | Throughout the study subjects were asked to complete at least one seven point home blood glucose monitoring profile a week and to collect a series of capillary blood samples simultaneously with the home monitoring profile at least once a fortnight . |
| 3 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |
| 4 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 5 | Hartley 's philosophy was in fact an early form of the twentieth-century scheme of mental association known as Behaviourism ( Pavlov 's dogs were taught to salivate at the sound of an electric bell ) , and if writing today he would presumably have compared the brain to a computer . |
| 6 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 7 | ( At one conference delegates were told to talk at the floor because Special Branch had hi-tech microphones trained on the windows to catch the sound-waves . ) |
| 8 | The families were told to attend at half-hour intervals from ten o'clock onwards . |
| 9 | The same fate befell the likes of Alan Hudson , Rodney Marsh , Tony Currie and Charlie George — all of whom were discarded even before their qualities were allowed to flourish at the highest level . |
| 10 | The devil likewise found work for idle hands while the entire staff of Harvard Securities were gathered to gawp at Leslie Grantham , alias " Dirty Den " the pub owner in the TV soap opera Eastenders , who was accepting a large cheque on behalf of the Spastics Society . |
| 11 | The South Africans were made to feel at home from the moment they entered Jamaica and they were clearly bewildered by the irony of their having been applauded out on to Sabina Park while Richie Richardson , the West Indies captain , was booed throughout the game . |
| 12 | However , from July 1919 the stripes were changed to run at a 45° angle from left to right . |
| 13 | A few years back each golfer used his own collection of chipped and misshapen balls and the caddies were expected to stand at the end of the practice area and collect them . |
| 14 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 15 | After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls . |
| 16 | During the last phase of the scheme 's existence , when storage problems became increasingly pressing and the scheme 's abolition imminent , artists were encouraged to keep at home the works of art they had officially sold to the government . |
| 17 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 18 | The score is sacrosanct ( yes , even early scores where performers were left to improvise at will , since the original performing tradition is now lost to us ) , and except in relatively extreme cases normally gives a clear indication of exactly which notes should be played and when . |
| 19 | Advisory groups were created to look at various educational issues . |
| 20 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 21 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 22 | It is not obvious , in reviewing this system , exactly where the element of indirection came in , except in so far as the Residents were instructed to maintain at all costs the ‘ prestige ’ of the emir . |
| 23 | The favour was reciprocated when Dire Straits were re-formed to play at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium , where Clapton helped out on guitar . |
| 24 | Women were forbidden to work at night in any industry ( a move opposed by some feminists ) . |
| 25 | Moscow and Petrograd papers were allowed to continue at the same volume but the rest of the press was to be reduced eventually to 232 papers , 158 of them guberniia and 74 uezd . |
| 26 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |