Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 2 | Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 . |
| 3 | The trials , organised by the British Medical Research Council and the French National AIDS Research Agency , were carried out at centres in the UK , France and Ireland from October 1988 . |
| 4 | All procedures were carried out at room temperature . |
| 5 | Where reviews were carried out at team meetings or ward meetings , the number of participants was higher ( the overall mean was four ) . |
| 6 | Hybridizations were carried out at 42°C for 16 h in 50% formamide-5 SSC-40 mM Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) -5 Denhardt 's solution-0.5% SDS-100 µg of denatured salmon sperm DNA per ml . |
| 7 | All electroporation steps were carried out at 4°C . |
| 8 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 9 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 10 | The presence of immigration officials and police on board trains is comparable to the scenes of 1930s America where migrant labourers were turned back at state boundaries . |
| 11 | Reports reached rally organisers that 1,000 Muslims were turned back at Gotse Delchev on their way to Sofia . |
| 12 | With the border opening looking increasingly doubtful in the week preceding Aug. 13 , members of several South Korean dissident groups attempted to make their own way to Panmunjom but were turned back at police roadblocks . |
| 13 | In the recessionary 1970s , most governments were turned out at elections or saw their share of electoral support fall . |
| 14 | We were enumerated off at Brodick which is still the ‘ tourist centre for exploring the island , and is in daily communication with the mainland … ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , similarities in their formulae suggest that both were drawn up at Fécamp in 1033 . |
| 16 | The last rites of the VORRSA were played out at Welshpool at the end of September , when the assets were transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . |
| 17 | Last month the CPS offered no evidence on any of the charges , and Mr Haughton , Mr Martin and Mr Palmer were bound over at Liverpool Magistrates Court . |
| 18 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 19 | Army bomb disposal experts were called in at Hope , Derbys — and another ‘ suspicious package ’ was found four miles away at Bamford . |
| 20 | Before the receivers were called in at Olympia & York , the Reichmann brothers commanded a billion-dollar business empire which had changed the skyline of London and New York . |
| 21 | Er you were called out at night and of course in those days you went round on a bicycle and you , you went round with your little black bag strapped on the back . |
| 22 | During the 1950s further units were set up at London and Liverpool University to assess attitudes in industry . |
| 23 | In France State-owned arms factories were set up at Maubeuge and Charleville in 1718 ; the government made itself responsible for the supply of uniforms in 1747 ; and the old system of military hospitals , which had left them largely in private hands , was abolished in 1788 . |
| 24 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 25 | A little later , shows were put on at village fairs and halls by travelling showmen . |
| 26 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 27 | His team were booed off at Vicarage Road after their eighth game without a win . |
| 28 | And when , in 1983 , The Guggenheim Museum opened its doors to the ‘ return of painting ’ with an exhibition devoted to Transavanguardia , works by the ‘ 3Cs ’ ( Chia , Cucchi and Clemente ) , were snapped up at prices in excess of $50,000 . |
| 29 | Within a week of the inquiry Chapman 's former stars were snapped up at bargain prices totalling £ 10,150 , the highest fee , £1,250 , being paid by Notts County for McCleod . |
| 30 | He showed no emotion as the charges were read out at Cookstown Magistrate 's Court . |