Example sentences of "was closed [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was going to bring you some flowers , ’ he said awkwardly , ‘ but the flower stall was closed at the station . ’
2 The door was closed at the time .
3 It relied on government subsidy and was closed at the end of 1958 .
4 The investigations into the death of Sviridenko ( who was found dead on a disused railway line ) was closed at the end of 1992 .
5 The fund , which was set up in February 1989 to collect money to service Poland 's foreign debt , was closed at the end of 1990 after reports of mismanagement .
6 I would not like to see a repeat of the problems caused when Station Lane was closed at the railway bridge some time ago !
7 Although the stock exchange was closed for the day as a result of the explosion , trading was largely uninterrupted since the central computer system remained undamaged .
8 On Aug. 11 the Shenzhen stock exchange was closed for the afternoon after " A " shares — reserved for Chinese investors — fell by 17 points .
9 The shop was closed for the lunch hour .
10 In Stenner v. Taff-Ely Borough Council ( The Independent , 25 May 1987 ) , the Court of Appeal held that a local authority which employed a gymnastics coach at its leisure centre was not liable to the plaintiff ( a friend of the coach ) , whom the coach had permitted to use the gym at a time when the leisure centre was closed to the public .
11 The office run by Oxfordshire county council was closed to the public while police carried out forensic investigations .
12 SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , speaking at the recent Unix International members meeting in New Orleans that was closed to the press , issued a call to arms against Microsoft Corp , making a strong plea for the industry to come together and adopt common interface specifications and common marketing programmes .
13 SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , speaking at the recent Unix International members meeting in New Orleans that was closed to the press , reportedly issued a call to arms against Microsoft Corp , making a strong plea for the industry to come together and adopt common interface specifications and common marketing programmes .
14 For several years Marton was closed during the winter , and its service cars transferred to Rigby Road shed , which operated the Marton route .
15 The tourist trade was practically non-existent and Reid 's Hotel was closed during the War .
16 As Frau Nordern went into the office a babble of voices rose behind her , still audible , although muted , as the door was closed by the man with the cigar .
17 Part of the inflationary gap was closed by the success of Bevin in getting the trade unions to follow a voluntary pay policy .
18 The land was therefore made into a coach road , allowing farm labourers and market gardeners access to the fields , but during the reign of George I , this long-established route was closed by the Surveyor General and only a few privileged people were allowed to use it .
19 The depot was closed by the police in the interests of public safety .
20 After the Conflagration ( his Monument being broken ) somebody made a little hole towards the upper edge of his Coffin , which was closed like the coffin of a Pye and was full of a Liquour which conserved the body .
21 This has occupied the site of what was formerly an early eighteenth-century nobleman 's estate since 1962 , but was closed after the collapse of the Soviet regime in August 1991 .
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