Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] out at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 2 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 3 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 4 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 5 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 6 | Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned , and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease . |
| 7 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 8 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 9 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 10 | — Nearly 50 awards were handed out at the Erimus Quoit and Rifle Social Club , Middlesbrough for the Winter Handicaps 1991–92 . |
| 11 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |
| 12 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 13 | Plans of reform were worked out at a succession of Councils or synods attended only by Western bishops . |
| 14 | Falcons were fitted out at the Bordeaux plant to customer specification . |
| 15 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 16 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 17 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 18 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 19 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 20 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 21 | But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study . |
| 22 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 23 | His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya . |
| 24 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 25 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 26 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 27 | The operation was carried out at the National Heart the next day , with the odds improving and I was then transferred to Harefield for five weeks . |
| 28 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 29 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 30 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |