Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 2 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 3 | Within two years the choir was booked to sing at the Queen 's Hall in London , and a royal command performance soon followed at Balmoral . |
| 4 | On this occasion , his uncle , the peppery old Nabob , was bidden to dine at the Cecil Hotel , in order that it might be proved to him that a respectable curry could be had outside the portals of the East India Club . |
| 5 | At 1200 hrs on 23 May , 1st Guards Brigade put out a warning order that the Army commander was expected to arrive at the battalion HQ of 3rd Grenadier Guards at 1130 hrs the following morning , where he " wishes to see the Brigade commander and COs " . |
| 6 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 7 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 8 | Cranmer was summoned to the royal presence and , though protesting his incompetence , was told to stay at the house of the Earl of Wiltshire , Anne Boleyn 's father . |
| 9 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 10 | A special Court of Governors was requested to meet at the infirmary on Saturday February 19th 1814 at 1 o'clock to elect a physician . |
| 11 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 12 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 13 | Our links with the Women 's League of Health and Beauty were further strengthened on 21 April when Jean Parmiter was invited to teach at the East Midlands Associated Members ' Annual Reunion , held in Groby , Leicestershire . |
| 14 | In August 1988 , Dai Qing was invited to speak at a banquet in Hong Kong held in honour of Liu Binyan , the most famous ‘ investigative reporter ’ of the People 's Daily , the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 15 | The Silmarillion , though , in its longer form , was bound to begin at the beginning . |
| 16 | A SHAKESPEARE play which was scheduled to open at the Liverpool Empire on Monday has been cancelled . |
| 17 | The public hearing of Virgin Atlantic 's application for a licence to fly between Gatwick and Newark was scheduled to begin at the Holborn offices of the Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA : the regulatory body of the airline industry ) on 1 March . |
| 18 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 19 | One of the large sprocket attaching bolts was found fractured at a position closely corresponding with the top surface of the sprocket ( i.e. in the lower face of the plain washer ) . |
| 20 | Merseyside police launched a nationwide manhunt for Mr Ashworth on the same day former girlfriend Denise Johnston was found strangled at the Lion Tavern , Liverpool . |
| 21 | Jim Eggleton , who was seventy , was found lying at the foot of the stairs of his council home in Russells Water , near Nettlebed … |
| 22 | Mrs Lynch of Eleanor Street , Wigan , went to the local station at Ashton-in-Makerfield after her brother Stephen Wilkinson , 38 , was found hanged at a children 's play area . |
| 23 | A MAN was found hanged at a city centre playground yesterday . |
| 24 | The inquiry , involving 30 officers , moved to Scotland after Gareth was found abandoned at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau in Hamilton , near Glasgow , at lunchtime on Thursday . |
| 25 | And most of that 14 days was spent travelling at the foot of the mountains . |
| 26 | She was compelled to stop at a particular stall , where a woman was selling crystals . |
| 27 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
| 28 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 29 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 30 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |