Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was completed at a Darlington hotel yesterday and Murray added : ‘ Lenny 's strengths are his pace and his finishing . |
| 2 | Meh'Lindi in Stealer guise was racing at a crouch through dark ducts and service tunnels . |
| 3 | The tyrants ’ toll was spotlighted at a London conference yesterday . |
| 4 | The Spurs Club was aimed at a deaf membership that did not use sign language . |
| 5 | Their opposition was publicised at a news conference . |
| 6 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 7 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 8 | Aimed at improving Glasgow 's record of ‘ high flier ’ new start companies , this Programme was launched at a New Firm Formation conference held in the Royal Concert Hall . |
| 9 | Russia 's privatization programme was outlined at a press conference on Dec. 30 by Gaidar . |
| 10 | Since the programme was proposed at a previous meeting in 1991 , only Denmark had actually contributed any funds . |
| 11 | Codd 's research was directed at a very real problem , that is the deletion , insertion and update of data on these very large files . |
| 12 | The Victoria Dock was completed at a cost of £200,000 and was officially opened in July . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales Graving Dock was completed at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 14 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 15 | However , when our car was serviced at a small back-street garage which we had never tried before , what really impressed us was not only the mechanical quality of the service , but the extra care taken . |
| 16 | Despite a heavyweight ( and possibly counterproductive ) lobbying effort by the tobacco companies , its March 14th vote was aimed at a complete ban on all tobacco advertising — a business worth £46m in Britain in 1988 . |
| 17 | The rabbit antibody to class II major histocompatibility complex was used at a dilution of 1:100 , while the sheep anti interferon-gamma antiserum was absorbed twice with a 1:1 mixture of porcine and guinea pig liver powders ( Sigma , Dorset , UK ) before being used on sections at a dilution of 1:100 . |
| 18 | This effect could not be attributed to different patterns of intonation in the two conditions ( Zurif and Mendelsohn , 1972 ) which implies that the effect was mediated at a syntactic level . |
| 19 | This re-organisation enabled the introduction of mixed-ability teaching in years one to three , in all subjects , and a decision to this effect was taken at a full staff conference in early 1974 . |
| 20 | Thus violence was sustained at a high level by American capitals ‘ first great offensive against labor ’ from the late-nineteenth century to the 1920s . |
| 21 | That submission was made at a time when I was sch not scheduled to be present at this enquiry , and was not present . |
| 22 | Steve 's prompt action was recalled at a special dinner in Southend when he and 13 other Credit Card staff were presented with Quality of Service Awards — a selection of crystal — by Senior Manager Bob Docherty . |
| 23 | By 1914 , strike action was running at a rate comparable to that of 1905 . |
| 24 | There is an exemption contained in s23(5) which applies where the holding was acquired at a time when the prohibition did not apply ( ie before the reverse takeover ) but subsequently the holder falls within the prohibition ( ie on the reverse takeover offer becoming unconditional ) . |
| 25 | The new accord was formalised at a meeting between Finnish Environment Minister Kaj Baerlund and the Soviet Union 's Nikolay Vorontsov , Chairman of the State Committee for the Protection of the Environment . |
| 26 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 27 | The headlines had already been written when Eddy and Boornazian suggested that the Sun was shrinking at a rate of 0.1 per century . |
| 28 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 29 | The June 27 breakthrough on tank numbers had been anticipated on June 14 , when the Polish-French proposal was recorded at a CFE plenary session without Soviet disagreement , but had then apparently been frustrated when the Soviet representative raised technical objections at a working group meeting later in the day . |
| 30 | The proposal was endorsed at a meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium chaired by Gorbachev on Feb. 12 . |