Example sentences of "[noun sg] station was [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 0n the larger scene , the Hydraulics Research Station was turned into a private company . |
| 2 | As de Groot ( 1983 ) reports , 90 per cent of the lad area was declared a national park in 1959 and the Charles Darwin Research Station was established in 1960 on Santa Cruz Island , the aim of which was to undertake scientific research and to begin a programme of goat eradication . |
| 3 | In 1898 Boston South Station was reconstructed in a classical style , with entrance and clock on a curved corner , which was to influence station-building in Australia , notably in Adelaide and Melbourne . |
| 4 | Following the military crackdown in Beijing the Central People 's Broadcasting Station was occupied by martial law troops and a widescale purge of the press was ordered , resulting in the dismissal of a number of newspaper executives including on July 15 Li Zisong , the publisher of the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po , funded by China and a de facto organ of the CCP , which had openly condemned the Chinese government over the Tiananmen massacre . |
| 5 | The leader of the earlier occupation of the broadcasting station was identified as Maj. Narcisse Djoua . |
| 6 | At 8.29am London Bridge station was rocked by an explosion . |
| 7 | In 1848 the passenger station was built at Edenderry , a fine building , now regrettably demolished . |
| 8 | After the documentary was screened , the television station was besieged with calls from worried home-owners . |
| 9 | The upsurgence of the motor car was forcibly rammed home when the cross-country holiday route , the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from Peterborough across Norfolk to Great Yarmouth Beach station was shut on 28 February 1959 . |
| 10 | ‘ Most of the space station was made of theoretical structures , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The loss of power in turn stopped water supplies because the main pumping station was left without electricity , Major Maufrais told reporters . |
| 12 | A teenager was killed and another injured by a bomb which destroyed an electricity pylon , and a radio presenter at a pro-government radio station was injured by another bomb ; the capital and towns to the north were again plunged into darkness by power cuts . |
| 13 | The pirate radio station was anchored off Walton on the Naze for several years until it was prevented from broadcasting by the Government . |
| 14 | Its city bus station was sold for development and its long-distance coach station was wholly unexpectedly sold for £4 1 million . |
| 15 | The old Colaba station was closed in 1930 when the massive Bombay Central was opened . |
| 16 | The original building was , by all accounts , demolished when St. John 's railway station was constructed on its present site . |
| 17 | An hour later a woman standing outside Central Milton Keynes railway station was kicked in the back by a youth on a racing bike . |
| 18 | The railway station was shared by Preston and Hedon , and when the line was axed the track became a pleasant country walk . |
| 19 | Plowden Station was featured as a Christmas card and Russell Mulford has a copy of this postcard . |
| 20 | Permission to build the first , Magnox-type nuclear power station was obtained with precious little opposition . |
| 21 | Similarly , to deal with the earthquake protection requirements at Cruas , more stringent than at most of the other sites , without having to modify the standard model , the power station was built on neoprene bearing pads capable of taking out a large part of any acceleration that might be imparted by the ground . |
| 22 | At last , the Corporation bought the Mavor and Coulson works , and a new power station was built in Waterloo Street . |
| 23 | On Dec. 8 , 1989 , the Aksu-Caykoy hydro-electric power station was inaugurated in Isparta , southern Anatolia ; equipment costing over $1,700,000 was provided by China under an agreement signed in March 1987 . |
| 24 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 25 | The first Phoenix Fire Station was built in Old Cockspur Street , near Trafalgar Square , west London , in 1794 . |
| 26 | The unavoidable reliance upon existing data sets led to many problems due to non-harmonization even of commonly used variables , e.g. eight different definitions of potential evapo-transpiration were in use in the Member States and ‘ maximum temperature ’ at each weather station was defined in at least four different ways ; |