Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the [noun sg] of " 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 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | When nests were placed at the side of the cage , hens preferred the rear positions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 13 | Sixteen of them were taken to hospital with whiplash neck injuries — others were treated at the scene of the accident for cuts and bruises . |
| 14 | ‘ Fighting manyattas ’ were formed at the request of the administration in 1955 , and a ‘ renaissance of the Masai fighting spirit of old ’ was detected . |
| 15 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 16 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |
| 17 | The four , of Bangladeshi origin , were returning a video to a store when they were attacked at the junction of Commercial Road and Deancross Street . |
| 18 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 19 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 20 | ( There were thought to be 2,600 West Africans , mostly Nigerians , in territory held by the NPFL ; attacks on Ghanaians and Nigerians were reported at the beginning of September , and Taylor , who was reported to be holding a large number of foreigners hostage , declared war on the ECOMOG force early in September . ) |
| 21 | The rise in cinema admissions and consolidation of the industry 's structure meant that , when the restrictions on subject matter were lifted at the end of the war , filmmakers could fully stretch their imaginations on stories that seemed relevant to the post-war mood . |
| 22 | Foreign exchange controls over about 60 per cent of merchandise imports were lifted at the end of September 1989 and in May 1990 the Senate passed a new bill to replace the Aliens Landholdings Act which had limited the areas of foreign investment and ownership in the country 's economy . |
| 23 | The oak pews and present pulpit were installed at the turn of this century and hot-water heating was installed in 1899 it a cost of £75 . |
| 24 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 25 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |
| 26 | In Britain , three of four planned PWRs were cancelled at the end of 1989 . |
| 27 | The first French skirmishers were appearing at the edge of the trampled area . |
| 28 | Further Sikh demands were met at the end of December when the Lok Sabha approved the repeal of a constitutional amendment adopted by the previous Lok Sabha in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 ] allowing the declaration of a state of emergency in Punjab . |
| 29 | The Chesterfield tanneries were sited at the edge of the town by the small river Hipper , a sensible precaution that was followed by most towns to keep away the smell and the flies . |
| 30 | Donegal trawlers were seen at the back of the Skerries , Donegore and The Humps the day before the festival started . |