Example sentences of "were [vb pp] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scores of meticulously labelled tins containing sub-assembly fixings were stacked at the rear of the workshop . |
| 2 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 3 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 7 | A fuller description of each of the new awards , which were accredited at the end of January , is given on page 5 . |
| 8 | The Commission regarded this difference of treatment as deterring companies registered in other member states from setting up agencies and branches , since they were placed at a disadvantage vis-à-vis French companies . |
| 9 | They found that when women spent time out of paid work bringing up their children they were placed at a disadvantage on the labour market . |
| 10 | Two bunches of roses from the dead girl 's parents , were placed at the scene after the jury left . |
| 11 | During the early years of Edward II 's extravagant and oppressive personal rule , his unpopular favourites were placed at the head of the Forest administration . |
| 12 | When nests were placed at the side of the cage , hens preferred the rear positions . |
| 13 | He supervised the transport and erection of a pair of colossal statues of the king of Karnak and of the two colossal statues , known as the Colossi of Memnon , which were placed at the entrance of Amenophis III 's mortuary temple in western Thebes . |
| 14 | This has been a very fine England side over the years , but I think there will be many more Irish players in the party than were mooted at the beginning of the season . ’ |
| 15 | Initial responses were given at a meeting on 13 January . |
| 16 | Africa 's needs in the area of remote sensing were highlighted at the conference by Bernard Sikilo , director general of Kenya 's remote-sensing centre in Nairobi . |
| 17 | In fact , assessing the degree to which the powers of the Crown were limited at the Revolution may not be the most appropriate way of measuring the extent to which 1689 was a victory for Whig principles . |
| 18 | A group of people were gathered at a mill two blocks away . |
| 19 | At Llanvillin his oratory caused two huge butcher-like men to dance about the room in excited admiration , and at Bala , he provoked a violent quarrel among the justice , the doctor , and others of the parish who were gathered at the inn . |
| 20 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 21 | They varied between 20–60 hectares in size , were situated at an elevation of around 300m , and were in shallow stony soils . |
| 22 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 23 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 24 | Sixteen of them were taken to hospital with whiplash neck injuries — others were treated at the scene of the accident for cuts and bruises . |
| 25 | ‘ Fighting manyattas ’ were formed at the request of the administration in 1955 , and a ‘ renaissance of the Masai fighting spirit of old ’ was detected . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | were broken at the top . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 30 | Colombian-born Lieutenant Roberto Paz , was unarmed when he and other marines in civilian clothes were stopped at a roadblock . |