Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 , . |
| 2 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 3 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 4 | Further , women were penalised because their pension was calculated at a less favourable rate than for men on account of their longer life expectancy . |
| 5 | Ahead , the MTWTV convoy was halted at a red light , and behind , Presley 's finest followed the armoured car with its onboard demon , at a leisurely and unhurried pace . |
| 6 | Steve 's prompt action was recalled at a special dinner in Southend when he and 13 other Credit Card staff were presented with Quality of Service Awards — a selection of crystal — by Senior Manager Bob Docherty . |
| 7 | Their opposition was publicised at a news conference . |
| 8 | The party was formed at a founding congress in November 1991 : 525 delegates , from almost all the regions and larger towns of Russia , attended the congress . |
| 9 | The league was formed at a meeting in the Central Coffee Tavern in Sunderland . |
| 10 | U.S. Steel was floated at a market capitalisation of $1.4 billion ( about $22 billion in today 's money , well behind the 1989 takeover of RJR Nabisco , but many times larger as a proportion of stockmarket value or GNP ) . |
| 11 | The ban on communists , however , was overturned at a special session of the Supreme Soviet on Sept. 23 , after which Aslonov resigned and the former Tajik Communist Party first secretary , Rakhman Nabiyev , was unanimously elected to replace him . |
| 12 | Bellway 's subsequent appeal against the decision was dismissed at a local planning inquiry in 1990 . |
| 13 | An earlier planning application by the firm for 47 homes on the site was refused by Middlesbrough council and an appeal against the decision was dismissed at a public inquiry . |
| 14 | Thus violence was sustained at a high level by American capitals ‘ first great offensive against labor ’ from the late-nineteenth century to the 1920s . |
| 15 | The racket was exposed at a refugee centre in Croatia . |
| 16 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
| 17 | A bolus of L-[1-C]leucine ( 4 g/70 kg body weight , 19.4 atom % ) was given at a constant rate in 200 ml 0.9% saline over 10 minutes . |
| 18 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 19 | Cimetidine was given at a dose of 100 mgkg - 1 day - 1 in the drinking water of the animals studied . |
| 20 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 21 | The Victoria Dock was completed at a cost of £200,000 and was officially opened in July . |
| 22 | The Prince of Wales Graving Dock was completed at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 23 | The extension was completed at a cost of more than £3m to cope with school enrolment of 540 pupils . |
| 24 | The deal was completed at a Darlington hotel yesterday and Murray added : ‘ Lenny 's strengths are his pace and his finishing . |
| 25 | HMS Hurworth , which went into battle during the Gulf conflict decorated with art work by village pupils of its namesake , near Darlington , was re-dedicated at a rousing ceremony in Rosyth . |
| 26 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 27 | Pears was honoured at a dinner at Newcastle 's Civic Centre last night . |
| 28 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 29 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 30 | On 11 September 1889 it was reported at a Sunday School teachers ' meeting that in the will of the late Mr James Johnston a substantial legacy had been left for the building of a Sunday School Chapel in Edenderry . |