Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS in the early afternoon when information was received at this desk about the plane . |
| 2 | Although it was stressed at this meeting by one speaker that the school should make the appraisal a valuable exercise , other teachers expressed concern over whether their reports would actually be read . |
| 3 | As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely . |
| 4 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 5 | Moscow was said at this stage to have been somewhat sluggish over the provision of spares and replacement items . |
| 6 | Although no firm progress was made at this stage much of the evidence is of interest as it deals with the environmental and development pressures resulting from such a link . |
| 7 | It is almost certain that Leonard 's interest in Zen Buddhism was sown at this time , and his ‘ anti-intellectualism ’ confirmed . |
| 8 | No filtration was used at this stage . |
| 9 | No white was used at this stage — only the white reflecting from the ground |
| 10 | It was agreed at this meeting that a Housing Sub-committee should be set up consisting of two representatives from the PC , two from the PCC and two other local people to be co-opted . |
| 11 | And since , above all , in my view , Rococo has all the characteristics of a fashion , it is evident that this bias did not affect everything that was produced at this period . |
| 12 | John 's obsession for uniformity was thwarted at this point as the experience of the older Girls always showed in their eye make-up . |
| 13 | The prototype , Skyship 500 ( New Scientist , 2 September , p 616 ) is well on the way to getting a full certificate of airworthiness , and was demonstrated at this year 's Farnborough airshow . |
| 14 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 15 | The machinery of the ancient Forest courts was found at this time to be cumbrous and ineffective . |
| 16 | It was found at this stage that the testbed had insufficient memory for more sophisticated processing and , since the simple improver did not significantly better the correlation ( though it certainly tidied up the displayed picture ) , this line of investigation was abandoned . |
| 17 | The day after the robbery Frank Smith was arrested at this caravan site near Oxford . |
| 18 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |
| 19 | The solvent flattened electron density map ( Fig. 1 b and 1e ) was skeletonized using the program BONES , and the skeletonized map was used with the density to trace the main chain of both monomers in the asymmetric unit using the program O. A monomer mask was generated at this point , and non-crystallographic symmetry averaging using the programs A and O was used to improve the side chain density in parts of the molecule . |
| 20 | Its opposition was overruled at this stage however by a majority of the Member States , who agreed to start work on EMU and Political Union in two parallel inter-governmental conferences , which opened at Rome in December 1990 . |
| 21 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
| 22 | The building was deserted at this hour of the morning , the corridors echoing as she made her way to her office and sat down behind the desk . |
| 23 | But HLA-B35 showed a predominant tyrosine residue at position 9 of bound peptides : no anchor residue was identified at this position for HLA-B53 . |
| 24 | A further problem was identified at this time . |
| 25 | Pious shock and horror was expressed at this frailty in the face of temptation — far more so than at the evidence that men behaved in the same way . |
| 26 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 27 | Furthermore , though the application of such measures to major roads was rejected at this stage , the studies concluded that ‘ in the long term , traffic restraint concepts together with appropriate land use and general transport planning concepts can effect reductions in vehicular traffic in the city as a whole ’ . |
| 28 | James , the leader of the Jerusalem Church , was killed at this time . |
| 29 | Within one hour there was activity at this base as the gun carriage that was to carry the King 's body was held at this unit . |
| 30 | The high esteem in which jet was held at this time is shown by its relation to amber and gold . |