Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 2 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 3 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 4 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 5 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 6 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 7 | When W. C. T. was two years old his mother gave birth to his brother John ; the pair of them were baptised together at the parish church on 21 January 1775 . |
| 8 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 9 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 10 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 11 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 12 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 13 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 14 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 15 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 16 | They were done once at the other house were n't they ? |
| 17 | I have read Primo Levi 's experience at Auschwitz and I produced a series of paintings based on the Holocaust which were exhibited together at the Mercury Gallery . |
| 18 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 19 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 20 | The problems of changing from a forty year old state economy to a free market were presented recently at the HCIMA London Branch German Dinner , held in the University of North London Training Restaurant by Horst Leyer representing HCIMA Germany . |
| 21 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 22 | The alterations to the National Executive report , Socialism and the Condition of the People which he advocated were finally left to the Executive to consider , and were moved again at the Southport Conference of 1934 . |
| 23 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 24 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 25 | When we reached the hospital , four cars and a Land Rover were drawn up at the bungalow . |
| 26 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 27 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 28 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 29 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 30 | — Nearly 50 awards were handed out at the Erimus Quoit and Rifle Social Club , Middlesbrough for the Winter Handicaps 1991–92 . |