Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The UN Security Council was reported at a closed session on Nov. 25 to have accepted the conclusions of a report by Boutros-Ghali which described existing UN policy in Somalia as untenable in view of the looting of up to 80 per cent of aid and attacks on relief workers , as well as the shelling by armed groups on Nov. 24 of a UN-chartered grain ship approaching Mogadishu harbour . |
| 32 | Thus far , however , the fund contains only $9 million , it was reported at a review meeting in Nairobi . |
| 33 | A major obstacle to a comprehensive Cambodian peace agreement was lifted at a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in New York on Sept. 19 [ see p. 38389 for Aug. 26-29 SNC meeting in Pattaya , Thailand ] . |
| 34 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 35 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 36 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 37 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 38 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 39 | He was educated at a boarding school in Darlington and his family moved many times due to his father 's job in the Royal Air Force . |
| 40 | Upon the latter 's death , he was educated at a hearing school in Clapham and thence at the Marlborough School of Art . |
| 41 | He was educated at a school in Ilkley and at Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 42 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 43 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 44 | Helena was educated at a French boarding-school in Neuville , and then at Notting Hill High School . |
| 45 | She was educated at a boarding-school in Hipperholme , near Halifax . |
| 46 | I was carried at a smooth lope by Trigger , or sometimes Silver . |
| 47 | Functional groups were designated by suffixes ( prefixes were not required , because only one functional group was considered at a time ) . |
| 48 | A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with the attempted murder of a teenager whose throat was slashed at a car boot sale . |
| 49 | On Aug. 30 a bomb was detonated at a Berlin memorial commemorating victims of the holocaust . |
| 50 | ( The recessed verandah to the right of centre , with its sliding picture windows , was added at a later date . ) |
| 51 | In lanes 3 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 13 and 15 , CRP was added at a concentration of 15 nM . |
| 52 | After washing , 100 µl of anti-transferrin horseradish peroxidase conjugate in buffer was added at a dilution of 1 in 2000 and incubated for a further 60 minutes . |
| 53 | In Congress-ruled Gujarat , on the west coast , the state Health Minister , Mr Vallabhbhai was attacked at a meeting on Tuesday and died yesterday in hospital . |
| 54 | METHODS.DiI was dissolved at a concentration of 1% in ethanol and pressure-ejected onto the exposed mesenchyme , at a series of points around the wound margin , from a glass micropipette with a tip diameter of about 10μm . |
| 55 | Liam 's mother , Harriet Shakespeare , was interviewed at a friend 's house today . ’ |
| 56 | The breaking point was located at a significantly lower pH in patients with gall stones than in controls ( pH 7.1 v pH 8.2 ) ( p<0.0001 ) . |
| 57 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 58 | This was particularly so in the Passchendaele sector of the Ypres salient , for the ground was reclaimed swamp and water was met at a depth of 45cm/ 18in . |
| 59 | The observational data was collected at a time when the men went in pairs , but they expressed concern over how this latest development worked against effective community policing : |
| 60 | After two control periods of one hour each , during which water was absorbed at a rate of 104 ( 14 ) ( mean ( SEM ) , n=15 ) and 94 ( 15 ) ml/30 cm/h , respectively , three different doses of cholera toxin ( 6.25 µg , 12.5 µg , 25 µg ) were administered by bolus into the lumen of the jejunum . |