Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scores of meticulously labelled tins containing sub-assembly fixings were stacked at the rear of the workshop . |
| 2 | If one were gazing at the vertex of a tetrahedron , would the view be different ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | Plans to merge the two began to be put into effect last year and were completed at the end of February . |
| 7 | A fuller description of each of the new awards , which were accredited at the end of January , is given on page 5 . |
| 8 | Two bunches of roses from the dead girl 's parents , were placed at the scene after the jury left . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When nests were placed at the side of the cage , hens preferred the rear positions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Africa 's needs in the area of remote sensing were highlighted at the conference by Bernard Sikilo , director general of Kenya 's remote-sensing centre in Nairobi . |
| 14 | In fact , assessing the degree to which the powers of the Crown were limited at the Revolution may not be the most appropriate way of measuring the extent to which 1689 was a victory for Whig principles . |
| 15 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 16 | At Llanvillin his oratory caused two huge butcher-like men to dance about the room in excited admiration , and at Bala , he provoked a violent quarrel among the justice , the doctor , and others of the parish who were gathered at the inn . |
| 17 | And that 's all anybody got was section six , this dreaded section six which we were taught at the end of the year ! |
| 18 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 19 | We arrived at Addis Ababa at midday on 28 October and were received at the railway station by the Emperor . |
| 20 | Sixteen of them were taken to hospital with whiplash neck injuries — others were treated at the scene of the accident for cuts and bruises . |
| 21 | ‘ Fighting manyattas ’ were formed at the request of the administration in 1955 , and a ‘ renaissance of the Masai fighting spirit of old ’ was detected . |
| 22 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 23 | Not for the first time , seats were wrecked at the showpiece stadium and maintenance men have spent the day at Ibrox assessing the full extent of the damage at the Celtic end of the ground . |
| 24 | were broken at the top . |
| 25 | Between January 1980 and June 1988 one hundred children ( 66 boys , 34 girls ) at Tanner stage 1 ( n=76 ) or Tanner stage 2 ( n=24 ) of pubertal development were diagnosed at the Hospital for Sick Children to have Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | These were joined at the site by the Stockport contingent — a large assembly of local dignitaries , together with the builders and two bands . |
| 27 | Approximately 27,000 cups of tea and coffee were consumed at the start in 1991 |
| 28 | The archway was bright with the brass plates of the dozens of corporations who were registered at the address to avoid paying tax in their home countries . |
| 29 | All hotels and guest houses in this brochure were registered at the time of going to press . |
| 30 | All strictures were dilated at the time of diagnosis ( and before pH monitoring when found at presentation ) . |