Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 were sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 2 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 3 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 4 | A fuller description of each of the new awards , which were accredited at the end of January , is given on page 5 . |
| 5 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 6 | Of the remaining 63 patients six were withdrawn before the end of the trial period for reasons given in table II . |
| 7 | In stark contrast to the problems over EDC , both treaties were ratified by the end of the year . |
| 8 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 9 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 10 | The repression of the IRA continued unabated : 650 prisoners were interned by the end of November . |
| 11 | Although charges against most of the FORD leaders were dropped by the end of the month , Ahmed Salim Bamahriz , who had escaped arrest earlier in the month , was detained in Mombasa on Nov. 25 . |
| 12 | The rise in cinema admissions and consolidation of the industry 's structure meant that , when the restrictions on subject matter were lifted at the end of the war , filmmakers could fully stretch their imaginations on stories that seemed relevant to the post-war mood . |
| 13 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 14 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 15 | In Britain , three of four planned PWRs were cancelled at the end of 1989 . |
| 16 | Further Sikh demands were met at the end of December when the Lok Sabha approved the repeal of a constitutional amendment adopted by the previous Lok Sabha in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 ] allowing the declaration of a state of emergency in Punjab . |
| 17 | Duisberg and Frankfurt were visited towards the end of June and then , after 33 sorties , I was posted " tour expired " to Kinloss in the bonnie land of Moray to instruct at No 19 OTU . |
| 18 | Six pairs of doors , each 16 feet high , were hung across the end of the shed , having been salvaged from the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway electric stock repair shops at Meols Cop . |
| 19 | Those words , just quoted , were written at the end of March , not from Basle , but from Lugano , and it was in Lugano that the new plans for the book had been translated into this continuous draft . |
| 20 | Had these votes been suitably transferable the relative positions of Smyth ( Other Unionist ) , elected sixth , and Gillespie ( SDLP ) runner-up , who were separated at the end of the count by only 179 votes , could have been reversed . |
| 21 | Weakened by warfare , imported diseases and the excessive demands of their overlords , they were obliged in the end to submit . |
| 22 | Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas . |
| 23 | Preparations were made towards the end of the year for the formation of a full-time Training Group to coordinate all aspects of training needs in BGS . |
| 24 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |
| 25 | In spite of these reservations , he worked on the rest of the poem very quickly and its last three sections were drafted before the end of that month . |
| 26 | But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future ! |
| 27 | The four information points , in libraries at Beccles , Haverhill , Woodbridge and Newmarket , were opened towards the end of last year , following the success of the Suffolk Connexions information point which opened in St Helen 's Street , Ipswich , in 1988 . |
| 28 | The coalowners ' response in most areas was to give notice that their workers ' contracts were terminated from the end of the month : Nottinghamshire colliery companies did not follow this path , but the NMA felt bound to call a strike in solidarity with the MFGB . |
| 29 | THE bars of America were packed at the end of last week , as viewers gathered in suitably drunken fashion to salute the end of ‘ Cheers ’ . |
| 30 | With the Constitution approved , presidential elections were expected to take place by the end of October and legislative elections were scheduled for the end of December . |