Example sentences of "were not at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Conroy and I came in you were not at your post . ’ |
| 2 | We were not at the end . |
| 3 | At the start of NEP experienced Bolsheviks were not at the editorial helm of central and especially local newspapers . |
| 4 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 5 | Ministers however were not at fault because ‘ nobody could tell that the stock market would go up 150 points since we priced the shares . |
| 6 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 7 | The larger purposes of God were not at risk of dying of thirst in the desert after all . |
| 8 | A number of courses were mentioned that were not at present available ( see under Personal Development ) . |
| 9 | A further use for videos could be to show the older farmers , who were not at present making use of training , alternative methods of performing tasks . |
| 10 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 11 | Fitzroy Maclean spoke to them and discovered that they were not at all suspicious . |
| 12 | The next morning was drizzling , damp and miserable and our man and his party were not at breakfast . |
| 13 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
| 14 | Those of the ground crews that we spoke to were not at all enthusiastic about this mode of travel — in fact a lot of them took an extremely dim view of it . |
| 15 | Anerley School were not at Banstead for long ; they returned to their own school in November 1942 but had to move again , this time to Yorkshire when the flying-bomb blitz started . |
| 16 | But she was an orphan , and the uncle and aunt with whom she lived were not at all well off . |
| 17 | It seemed easier to do right by a people who wanted nothing than by peoples who clamoured for what you were not at all sure you wanted to give them . |
| 18 | The results were not at all encouraging : four out of five hams on sale in delicatessens , a third in supermarkets and almost half of those in butcher shops were contaminated . |
| 19 | They were not at all surprised when they did n't receive a single reply . |
| 20 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 21 | The select band of customers scattered throughout Hampshire who know Carol 's work were not at all surprised when they learned who had created the rings . |
| 22 | Despite Swansea lodging a protest , the FA yesterday ruled that Exeter were not at fault for the abandonment . |
| 23 | Some of the transactions the Crown sought to rely on were not at arm 's length and might therefore be of no assistance , but there might be other transactions which had taken place between parties who were genuinely trying to strike an open market value , and there was no reason why such cases should be ignored . |
| 24 | The next two years were not at all successful , and there were reasons for that which Jackie himself will admit . |
| 25 | The impressive expertise used by the state in reassuring the population was easily undermined : ‘ the long distance perceived between the Dublin-based experts of the NEB who assured the population that they were not at risk and the respected local doctors who spoke out about health hazards of uranium , called the legitimacy of the established authority into question ’ . |
| 26 | They were not at first acute and Celia supposed that they could be due to indigestion and therefore a false alarm . |
| 27 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 28 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 29 | France were not at their best . |
| 30 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |