Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 2 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 3 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 4 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 5 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 6 | In the case where a lift was placed at each end of a summit , and where the traffic was through the summit , there would be no loss or gain of water by the use of the lift other than the loss of 1/100 of a lock each time either lift passed up and down . |
| 7 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 8 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 9 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 10 | George was sitting at one end of a vast empty dining table , with a little oasis of bottles , coffee pot and cheeseboard at his elbow . |
| 11 | Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes . |
| 12 | Rodney was standing at one end of the table , a turquoise can in his hand . |