Example sentences of "[conj] were [vb pp] at the [noun] " 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 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
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 | 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 . |
11 | Just how important the station was to the life of the community can be gauged from the numerous stretches of approach road and land that were improved at the ratepayers ' expense — widened , often given pavements which look particularly incongruous leading from nowhere today , and lit with gas lamps . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | On his feet were a pair of odd socks that were holed at the toes . |
14 | Only a handful of the numerous pamphlets that were published at the time are included in the catalogue . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
19 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
20 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
21 | The platforms were reached by ‘ Stanwood ’ fixed steps and were closed at the driver 's end by ‘ Bostwick ’ collapsible gates . |
22 | These responses , like those in the next sections , were provided by respondents without prompting and were classified at the data analysis stage of the study . |
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 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |