Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [conj] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 If facilities were not provided or routes were withdrawn or changed at short notice consumers should have a statutory right to go to a statutory body to seek redress .
2 However , many godly ministers were fined and imprisoned at this time .
3 Many of France 's most popular cars , including the postwar 4CV , 4L and 5 , were designed and built at Billancourt .
4 The implications of the 1943 Education Bill were considered and accepted at a conference at Impington Village College in late January 1944 .
5 However , Baillie Cochrane explained that Scott 's first scheme had reception rooms ‘ on a magnificent scale ’ , but on the recommendation of the Select Committee they were omitted and reintroduced at the suggestion of Foreign Office officials as normal rooms which could be used for special occasions .
6 After measuring the volume , two aliquots of 10 ml each were frozen and stored at -20°C pending analysis .
7 We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening .
8 It so happened that the summer was an exceptionally hot one , the yield of tomatoes in the region was unusually high , and " taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity , two thousand 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato were manufactured and despatched at once to the Savoy Hotel . "
9 Here , reports were prepared and distributed at regular intervals and the occasional request for ad hoc information was dealt with as the need arose .
10 Cotton mills were built and worked at Airton and Kirkby Malham : by the side of the path up Pikedaw Hill is the entrance to a disused lead-mine , while further up the dale is the old smelt mill chimney on Malham Moor .
11 After a 45 minute equilibration period , salivary oesophageal and gastric aspirates were collected and pooled at 15 minute intervalsfor one hour , and pH and pCO 2 were measured in fresh samples to determine basal oesophageal bicarbonate secretion as already described .
12 ‘ However , the teeth were made and fitted at the beginning of June .
13 The fractions containing reactivity against PT-gliadin only were pooled and stored at 4°C after the addition of sodium azide .
14 The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) .
15 Soldiers present in the guard-room which it frequents describe it as a black spaniel who would enter the room when candles were lit and disappear at daybreak , trotting up the hallway .
16 You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration .
17 In other words it 's , it 's sticking from east to west , people will know of all the thing , it 's er tell you that many from eastern parts and western parts were called and reclined at the table , in other words this , well this good news that Jesus was sticking on this
18 The cell cultures were inspected and photographed at daily intervals .
19 The compensation claim covered a period between 1919 and 1967 when Nauru was under Australian administration , during which time its phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices .
20 In his view Australia was particularly responsible , in legal and moral terms , as the administering authority in Nauru between 1891 and independence , during which time the island 's phosphates were extracted and sold at below market prices .
21 We were kicked and shouted at and then thrown out of the vehicle .
22 Her remains were stolen and hidden at the foot of an oak tree in this valley , to be eventually found , in the familiar manner of such discoveries , by an inquisitively rooting ox , whose horns at once lit indicatively up .
23 Assistance was provided by traditional in-service education , by the activities of advisers and inspectors and , at one time , by activities which were sponsored or encouraged at teachers ' professional centres .
24 For this the samples were thawed and centrifuged at 3000 g for 10 minutes to remove the mucus .
25 The documents were retrieved and looked at but not cited because :
26 Supernatants were combined and centrifuged at 16500 g for 25 minutes to obtain a lysosome enriched pellet .
27 All components on and below the solebar were fitted and riveted at this stage , for example , spring shoes .
28 Thus , a situation had arisen in which the goings on at Roscarrock Hall were ignored or winked at , and the family was left alone by the Justice of the Peace on the understanding that the fines were paid on time .
29 Virtually all the largest American corporations broke the law in one way or another ; laws controlling pollution , the adulteration of products , the regulating of prices and so on were ignored and broken at will .
30 However , while the condition of struggle with the West Indians remained a constant , at least until 1838 , in providing a rationale for national organisations , how they were conceived as operating at various times , and even at the same time by different reformers , varied significantly .
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