Example sentences of "and [was/were] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks took place on 13th July and were adjourned at the suggestion of the Chairman . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The aeromagnetic data are on flight lines typically spaced at 2 km and were collected at a height of 305 m . |
| 4 | Her hair was done in pig-tails that hung over her shoulders and were tied at the bottom with satin ribbon . |
| 5 | Samples of cell suspension , or of the adenylate cyclase assay system , were added to an equal volume of ice cold ethanol , immediately frozen , and were stored at -20°C . |
| 6 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 7 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 8 | The brothers also refused to give up seal culling between October and April and were seen at ‘ The Tip ’ even less than the manager . |
| 9 | They probably adopted as their standard of ‘ homophonic polyphony ’ with clearly intelligible text the Preces speciales of the Italianized Netherlander Jacobus de Kerle ( c. 1532–1591 ) and his Mass ‘ Regina coeli ’ ; the ‘ special prayers ’ for the Council 's success had been commissioned by a German cardinal , Truchsess von Waldburg , in 1562 and were sung at Trent three times almost every week . |
| 10 | Filters were washed to stringency of 2×standard saline citrate 1% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( W:V ) at 65°C and were autoradiographed at -70:C using Fuji : RX-L x-ray film . |
| 11 | On 9 November they crossed the English border and were re-united at Longtown , nine miles [ 14 km ] north of Carlisle . |
| 12 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 13 | The properties had been left to the Church in the early eighteenth century and were let at moderate rents . |
| 14 | The platforms were reached by ‘ Stanwood ’ fixed steps and were closed at the driver 's end by ‘ Bostwick ’ collapsible gates . |
| 15 | All the doors of the hall and its adjoining chambers were fitted with strong latches , and were closed at night ; to find one left loose was unusual . |
| 16 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 17 | Besides , the subsidies implicit in the incentives were insufficient to offset the anti-export bias created by the NEP ‘ padding ’ and protectionism and were aimed at only the largest enterprises . |
| 18 | New fisheries legislation which changed the basis for regulation of Greenland 's shrimp fisheries and attached quasi-property rights to licences to fish were introduced in 1990/91 , and were aimed at tackling the industry 's problems . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In our study , gender was taken account of in the selection of workshops : we studied workshops with men only , with women only , workshops where men and women did the same work and were paid at the same rate , and those where the sexes did different jobs and men were paid more than women . |
| 22 | I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery . |
| 23 | The terrified family were handcuffed , had pillows pulled over their heads and were held at gunpoint overnight . |
| 24 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 25 | A month ago he had a positive diagnosis and was treated at the Churchill Hospital . |
| 26 | He suffered head and shoulder injuries and was treated at Newcastle General Hospital . |
| 27 | As a 17-year-old , Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden . |
| 28 | He fought for King Charles in the Civil War and was killed at Marston Moor in 1644 . |
| 29 | Ida Smedley died 2 March 1944 in a nursing home and was cremated at Golders Green . |
| 30 | The move was designed to boost exports to Western markets in order to combat inflation , which had been around 34 per cent in 1990 and was projected at up to 40 per cent in 1991 . |