Example sentences of "[conj] were [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A copy of the initial writ requires to be served on ( 1 ) the clerk of the licensing board and ( 2 ) all parties who appeared or were represented at the hearing including the applicant if the appeal is by an objector , at the same time as the initial writ is lodged with the sheriff clerk or as soon as may be thereafter ( para. 3,5.1. 197711622 . |
| 2 | Thus , about beliefs and values in science education , Michael Poole writes : In science education and in other areas of the curriculum more help needs to be given to students to enable them to discern where beliefs and values are located , how to spot where they follow from the subject matter or were imported at the beginning , what are the available options among them and what are appropriate criteria for testing their truth-claims and adjudicating between the ones on offer . |
| 3 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 4 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the efforts that were made at the conference to din the contradiction between conservation and utilitarianism into the brains behind DOCOMOMO , the lure of the rolling expense accounts of museum culture was too strong . |
| 6 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 7 | In accordance with the main theme of this book the accounts given here are drawn from the school sector ( primary and secondary ) and concentrate on activities that were conducted at the level of the whole institution ( although , in practice , the whole of the school may not have become involved ) . |
| 8 | There were the other things that were written at the time — there are at least 15 cues . ’ |
| 9 | This is not the place to discuss the report at length , but to mention one or two points that were aired at the press conference to introduce it . |
| 10 | The tears that were burning at the back of her eyes began to fall as soon as she entered her room , and , flinging herself on the bed , she gave way to helpless misery . |
| 11 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 12 | A problem arose because it was believed that Macmillan had secured terms of reference which would entitle the Tribunal to investigate not merely Vassall , but also rumours relating to Vassall that were circulating at the time , rumours about many discreditable matters but mainly his sexual activities . |
| 13 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 14 | Added to this there was the alarming , although on closer inspection ambiguous , evidence of concerted communist plans for Asia as a whole that were discussed at the World Federation of Democratic Youth Conference in Calcutta in February 1948 . |
| 15 | Only a handful of the numerous pamphlets that were published at the time are included in the catalogue . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 18 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 19 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 20 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 21 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 22 | The platforms were reached by ‘ Stanwood ’ fixed steps and were closed at the driver 's end by ‘ Bostwick ’ collapsible gates . |
| 23 | The central doors are by Ludovico Pogliaghi and were finished at the end of the nineteenth-century ; the door panels represent episodes in the life of the Virgin , the ‘ light ’ being the Coronation . |
| 24 | Temptation proved too strong one night when there were some naval cadets in the audience who threw flowers and chocolates up to the troupe and were waiting at the stage door after the show . |
| 25 | After a long walk we came out between the dunes and were staring at the sea . |
| 26 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |