Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A military member of the National Salvation Front also disclosed yesterday that ex-President Ceaucescu was captured at a roadblock north of Bucharest while trying to flee . |
| 2 | Mrs Spencer was seated at a table spread with drawings , paint and brushes . |
| 3 | Their opposition was publicised at a news conference . |
| 4 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 5 | Russia 's privatization programme was outlined at a press conference on Dec. 30 by Gaidar . |
| 6 | And as Joe Lucas was unwinding from the pitch to which he 'd momentarily raised himself , Lucy was seated at a side-table in a Wardour Street coffee shop . |
| 7 | The Victoria Dock was completed at a cost of £200,000 and was officially opened in July . |
| 8 | The Prince of Wales Graving Dock was completed at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 9 | 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 , . |
| 10 | The inquest into Ian 's death was told that £950 was spent at a pub during the fatal party . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 13 | That submission was made at a time when I was sch not scheduled to be present at this enquiry , and was not present . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | The CPSU central committee 's decision that Gorbachev should visit Lithuania was taken at a plenum on Dec. 25-26 , held to discuss the CPL independence declaration . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The proposal was endorsed at a meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium chaired by Gorbachev on Feb. 12 . |
| 21 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 22 | The court was told that Gilchrist was arrested at a house in Pershore after he himself had telephoned the police . |
| 23 | The plan was agreed at a meeting co-ordinated by the World Bank and attended by representatives of bilateral donors and international organizations , and was the first of its kind to receive support from the international community . |
| 24 | According to press reports the plan was approved at a cabinet meeting on 24 December , against the objections of Aleksei Yablokov , the government 's senior adviser on environmental issues . |
| 25 | Iran 's President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday inaugurated Iran 's first plant manufacturing semiconductors according to Teheran Radio , which said that the Centre for Research and Production of Semiconductors was built at a cost of $6m plus $2.5m in local currency . |
| 26 | At midnight on Oct. 2-3 the FRG flag was raised at a ceremony held outside the Reichstag ( the former German parliament ) in Berlin . |
| 27 | The ileal loop was perfused at a rate of 1.0 ml/minute by a peristaltic pump ( Watson-Marlow , Inc , Marblehead , MA ) ; experiments started with 30 minutes equilibration followed by three hours during which samples of ileal effluent were collected every 10 minutes . |
| 28 | The life and work of Basil Rocke was remembered at a service of thanksgiving at Long Preston Parish Church last December . |
| 29 | At Rangers , players like Colin West , Trevor Francis and Mark Falco did n't last long while Mel Sterland was sold at a profit after only three months ! |
| 30 | Ruth was seated at a window watching the storm . |