Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osborne , a 20-year-old crane driver of Leicester , was recommended to serve at least 10 years . |
| 2 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 3 | The ESSE/L Project was designed to operate at two distinct levels of funding , Minor award schools receiving less than half the allocation offered to Major Project schools . |
| 4 | The levy , which would be effective until June 30 , 1992 , was designed to raise at least 20,000 million pesos in additional revenue . |
| 5 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 6 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 7 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 8 | Within two years the choir was booked to sing at the Queen 's Hall in London , and a royal command performance soon followed at Balmoral . |
| 9 | HAVING already installed 19 gas extinguishing systems in the Channel Tunnel , Fireater was approached to look at protecting risks using high expansion foam as the extinguishing media . |
| 10 | On this occasion , his uncle , the peppery old Nabob , was bidden to dine at the Cecil Hotel , in order that it might be proved to him that a respectable curry could be had outside the portals of the East India Club . |
| 11 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 12 | ETA Ardneavie 2200/22/6 , her travel instructions stated precisely — which really meant that Wren Violet T. McKeown was expected to arrive at her destination by 10 P.M. on the twenty-second day of June . |
| 13 | At 1200 hrs on 23 May , 1st Guards Brigade put out a warning order that the Army commander was expected to arrive at the battalion HQ of 3rd Grenadier Guards at 1130 hrs the following morning , where he " wishes to see the Brigade commander and COs " . |
| 14 | Left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals , and called instead for increases in public spending to reduce unemployment , which was expected to remain at around 10 per cent . |
| 15 | The trial was expected to last at least a year . |
| 16 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 17 | He was actually the oldest son of a farmer and er was expected to stay at home and the firm . |
| 18 | Dunvegan had a well ; the water , Johnson found upon enquiry , was not brackish but hard ; Rorie More 's drinking-horn held two quarts of liquor , ‘ which the heir of Macleod was expected to swallow at a draught … before he was permitted to bear arms , or could claim a seat among the men ’ . |
| 19 | Last night , the League was expected to have at least 26 seats in the 315-seat Senate and at least 60 in the 430-seat Chamber of Deputies . |
| 20 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |
| 21 | He was bailed to appear at Durham Crown Court in December , 1981 , but failed to appear . |
| 22 | Faced by a prosecution concerned primarily with political advancement , confronted by intimidated witnesses who produced no convincing evidence , and his guilt attested by a jury of eleven Campbells and four others , James Stewart was sentenced to hang at Ballachulish ferry on 8 November 1752 . |
| 23 | Moreover , this normative process was felt to operate at several levels , from appointments , promotions and other career aspirations to the much more subtle everyday processes whereby individuals come to acquire a sense of their professional worth from the comments and valuations of ‘ significant others ’ advisers , advisory teachers and heads in particular . |
| 24 | When the young men , released from silence , were not talking about ‘ shows ’ in London — which , as their only excursion into permissiveness held out vistas of slightly forbidden enjoyments — they commented with a kind of awe on the ardour of devotion which Eliot was Seen to display at Mass . |
| 25 | Well another survey was done to look at these people at the top and see how they 're coping , and a big surprise . |
| 26 | The country 's commercial debt was said to stand at $10,600 million , plus $1,200 million in interest arrears , to some 500 banks . |
| 27 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 28 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 29 | This particular model was built to demonstrate at shows and has been generally lent , hired out , pawed , mauled and knocked about as a result . |
| 30 | After an overnight fast ( from 2400 h , each subject was instructed to urinate at 0900 h and was then given 22.6 g glucose , 5 g lactulose , and 1 g L-rhamnose in 100 ml of distilled water . |