Example sentences of "was [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 2 | Their opposition was publicised at a news conference . |
| 3 | The league was formed at a meeting in the Central Coffee Tavern in Sunderland . |
| 4 | U.S. Steel was floated at a market capitalisation of $1.4 billion ( about $22 billion in today 's money , well behind the 1989 takeover of RJR Nabisco , but many times larger as a proportion of stockmarket value or GNP ) . |
| 5 | The racket was exposed at a refugee centre in Croatia . |
| 6 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 7 | Cimetidine was given at a dose of 100 mgkg - 1 day - 1 in the drinking water of the animals studied . |
| 8 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
| 9 | The Victoria Dock was completed at a cost of £200,000 and was officially opened in July . |
| 10 | The Prince of Wales Graving Dock was completed at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 11 | The extension was completed at a cost of more than £3m to cope with school enrolment of 540 pupils . |
| 12 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 13 | He was gazing at a print of unrealistic mountains against a brilliant blue sky . |
| 14 | Jitters was sucking at a bottle . |
| 15 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 16 | Pears was honoured at a dinner at Newcastle 's Civic Centre last night . |
| 17 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 18 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 19 | Thus far , however , the fund contains only $9 million , it was reported at a review meeting in Nairobi . |
| 20 | A major obstacle to a comprehensive Cambodian peace agreement was lifted at a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in New York on Sept. 19 [ see p. 38389 for Aug. 26-29 SNC meeting in Pattaya , Thailand ] . |
| 21 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 22 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 23 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 24 | She was educated at a boarding-school in Hipperholme , near Halifax . |
| 25 | He was educated at a boarding school in Darlington and his family moved many times due to his father 's job in the Royal Air Force . |
| 26 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 27 | He was educated at a school in Ilkley and at Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 28 | Upon the latter 's death , he was educated at a hearing school in Clapham and thence at the Marlborough School of Art . |
| 29 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 30 | Julie Godwin , who was thirty , was sunbathing at a nature reserve when she was killed . |