Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A MAN was found hanged at a city centre playground yesterday . |
| 9 | She was compelled to stop at a particular stall , where a woman was selling crystals . |
| 10 | Maggie was left staring at a closed door , lost for words . |
| 11 | Unbelievably , M4 was allowed to rise at a rate of 17.7 per cent in the most recent six-month period . |
| 12 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |
| 13 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 14 | It grew harder later , when she was sent to study at a special school for the blind — the other kids taunted her because , by then , she was also going deaf . |