Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end . |
| 2 | Scores of meticulously labelled tins containing sub-assembly fixings were stacked at the rear of the workshop . |
| 3 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 4 | In the interval , policies were developed at a slower pace than the rate the problems multiplied with which they were intended to deal . |
| 5 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 6 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 7 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 8 | Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street . |
| 9 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 10 | Barricades were erected at the precise boundary of the two religious communities in an area of no-man's-land between a Catholic cathedral and a Protestant church , both rumoured to be threatened by attack . |
| 11 | Practice ski lessons were arranged at the local dry ski slope . |
| 12 | LOW PRICES were realised at the Rick Cole Reno Auction on September 18/19 . |
| 13 | John Major told the Commons at Prime Minister 's Question Time that none of the 16 arrested at the factory , where 340 were sacked at the end of January , had been a Timex worker . |
| 14 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 15 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 16 | A fuller description of each of the new awards , which were accredited at the end of January , is given on page 5 . |
| 17 | They were halted at the outer guardhouse at the aforementioned trench , to identify themselves . |
| 18 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 19 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 20 | The Commission regarded this difference of treatment as deterring companies registered in other member states from setting up agencies and branches , since they were placed at a disadvantage vis-à-vis French companies . |
| 21 | They found that when women spent time out of paid work bringing up their children they were placed at a disadvantage on the labour market . |
| 22 | Adverts extolling her virtues were placed at every suitable vantage point . |
| 23 | During the early years of Edward II 's extravagant and oppressive personal rule , his unpopular favourites were placed at the head of the Forest administration . |
| 24 | When nests were placed at the side of the cage , hens preferred the rear positions . |
| 25 | He supervised the transport and erection of a pair of colossal statues of the king of Karnak and of the two colossal statues , known as the Colossi of Memnon , which were placed at the entrance of Amenophis III 's mortuary temple in western Thebes . |
| 26 | Some of the luggage was mislaid and after claims were placed at the lost luggage desk , it eventually turned up which meant a dash across the city out our ‘ 5-star accommodation ’ , the Vienna Marriott Hotel . |
| 27 | Two bunches of roses from the dead girl 's parents , were placed at the scene after the jury left . |
| 28 | This has been a very fine England side over the years , but I think there will be many more Irish players in the party than were mooted at the beginning of the season . ’ |
| 29 | Initial responses were given at a meeting on 13 January . |
| 30 | Seven 50 minute Medau sessions were given at a Kent County Council Fun Day for girls , part of the ‘ Ever thought of Sport ’ campaign at Buckmore Park Activity Centre , near Maidstone . |