Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] 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 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 14 | Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | For this survey more than 1,000 British men were contacted at the end of last year and the beginning of this . |
| 18 | Since breath tests were introduced at the end of the Sixties , more than 25,000 people have been killed by drink driving . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | New federal and republican ( Czech and Slovak ) governments were appointed at the end of June . |
| 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 | The officers from Brussels were stationed at the end of a narrow passage leading to the English House . |
| 30 | Hydrogen breath tests and three day stool collections for faecal fat were repeated at the end of the course of treatment . |