Example sentences of "were [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 32 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 33 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 34 | Sixteen of them were taken to hospital with whiplash neck injuries — others were treated at the scene of the accident for cuts and bruises . |
| 35 | The men were treated at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 36 | All were treated at the Berkshire base 's medical centre , but were not seriously affected . |
| 37 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 38 | ‘ Fighting manyattas ’ were formed at the request of the administration in 1955 , and a ‘ renaissance of the Masai fighting spirit of old ’ was detected . |
| 39 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 40 | Not for the first time , seats were wrecked at the showpiece stadium and maintenance men have spent the day at Ibrox assessing the full extent of the damage at the Celtic end of the ground . |
| 41 | were broken at the top . |
| 42 | Between January 1980 and June 1988 one hundred children ( 66 boys , 34 girls ) at Tanner stage 1 ( n=76 ) or Tanner stage 2 ( n=24 ) of pubertal development were diagnosed at the Hospital for Sick Children to have Crohn 's disease . |
| 43 | We were joined at the Rivermead post by a jolly girl from Chelsea called ‘ George . ’ |
| 44 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 45 | Colombian-born Lieutenant Roberto Paz , was unarmed when he and other marines in civilian clothes were stopped at a roadblock . |
| 46 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 47 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 48 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 49 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 50 | Approximately 27,000 cups of tea and coffee were consumed at the start in 1991 |
| 51 | They were part of a group of students returning from Stratford to London where they were registered at a college on Picadilly . |
| 52 | The archway was bright with the brass plates of the dozens of corporations who were registered at the address to avoid paying tax in their home countries . |
| 53 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 54 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 55 | The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street . |
| 56 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 57 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 58 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 59 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 60 | In Soho , Karsten Schubert 's exhibition of Keith Coventry 's ten Suprematist paintings , which were previewed at the Cologne Art Fair and superimpose the colours of the leading racist football clubs as identified in a Fascist magazine over a recreation of Malevich 's white Suprematist painting , ends shortly ( to 6 February ) , and is followed by a new series of sculptures designed by Michael Landy ( 10 February-6 March ) . |