Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 were sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 2 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 3 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 4 | A fuller description of each of the new awards , which were accredited at the end of January , is given on page 5 . |
| 5 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 6 | The rise in cinema admissions and consolidation of the industry 's structure meant that , when the restrictions on subject matter were lifted at the end of the war , filmmakers could fully stretch their imaginations on stories that seemed relevant to the post-war mood . |
| 7 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 8 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 9 | In Britain , three of four planned PWRs were cancelled at the end of 1989 . |
| 10 | Further Sikh demands were met at the end of December when the Lok Sabha approved the repeal of a constitutional amendment adopted by the previous Lok Sabha in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 ] allowing the declaration of a state of emergency in Punjab . |
| 11 | Those words , just quoted , were written at the end of March , not from Basle , but from Lugano , and it was in Lugano that the new plans for the book had been translated into this continuous draft . |
| 12 | Had these votes been suitably transferable the relative positions of Smyth ( Other Unionist ) , elected sixth , and Gillespie ( SDLP ) runner-up , who were separated at the end of the count by only 179 votes , could have been reversed . |
| 13 | Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas . |
| 14 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |
| 15 | THE bars of America were packed at the end of last week , as viewers gathered in suitably drunken fashion to salute the end of ‘ Cheers ’ . |
| 16 | For this survey more than 1,000 British men were contacted at the end of last year and the beginning of this . |
| 17 | Since breath tests were introduced at the end of the Sixties , more than 25,000 people have been killed by drink driving . |
| 18 | The foundations of the popularity of the seamen were laid at the end of the fifteenth century with the voyages of discovery of Bartholomew Diaz , Vasco da Gama , John Cabot and Christopher Columbus — the space explorers of their times . |
| 19 | Much of the time of the Director-General and senior staff was spent in budgeting and cost control and , in order to achieve further savings , eight redundancies were declared at the end of the year . |
| 20 | Successors were appointed at the end of October 1989 to the heads of Italy 's two largest state enterprises , Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale ( IRI ) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ( ENI ) . |
| 21 | New federal and republican ( Czech and Slovak ) governments were appointed at the end of June . |
| 22 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 23 | A further 6,000 soldiers from Nigeria 's army were demobbed at the end of June , bringing the total reduction so far to 15,000 . |
| 24 | They thought I was really funny , but when my particulars were taken at the end of the week , I was again brought across the counter to sign other folk on . |
| 25 | Blood samples were taken at the end of each infusion period for gastrin assay . |
| 26 | Writs were issued at the end of January against the Sunday Express and Neville Hodgkinson , who wrote an article about Halcion and its possible side-effects , and the BBC 's Panorama programme and its presenter Tom Mangold for a programme entitled The Halcion nightmare . |
| 27 | The conclusions of this study , which were delivered at the end of 1989 , confirmed the widely held view that takeover activity in the Community was operating on a one-way street : while the UK market was open to takeovers , this was not so for the rest of the Community . |
| 28 | The central doors are by Ludovico Pogliaghi and were finished at the end of the nineteenth-century ; the door panels represent episodes in the life of the Virgin , the ‘ light ’ being the Coronation . |
| 29 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |
| 30 | The officers from Brussels were stationed at the end of a narrow passage leading to the English House . |