Example sentences of "were at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1989 fund-raising and the general economy were at such a position that a ‘ Go ’ decision was either to be made , or it would never happen . |
| 2 | ‘ Of those , at least 25,000 were at such a desperate level of starvation that they would have died had the food reached them any later . |
| 3 | Deep gashes of black under the eyes , skin the colour of ashes , a slight wobbliness to his movements , His speech is fastidious , precise in a way that would seem pompous if he were at all ebullient ; but with his small , gave voice — sometimes withering , always withered — the impression is of a wary distrust of words and the ways they can be misconstrued . |
| 4 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |
| 5 | And the galleries that ran before successive doors , were at all seasons places of free air ; and in the summer season were places of mirth and glee , and active happy industry . |
| 6 | I … despised most of the boys , that were at all near my own age — and before I was eight years old , I was a character — sensibility , imagination , vanity , sloth , & feelings of deep & bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the orbit of my understanding , were even then prominent & manifest . |
| 7 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 8 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 9 | ‘ They were at all the important functions in the area and Trevor 's action to save Cherry would have been automatic . |
| 10 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 11 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 12 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 13 | It was the site where such a building had to be , if buildings there were at all . |
| 14 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 15 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 16 | I 'm far too tired , even if I were at all tempted . |
| 17 | The whole thing must be nearly over — hardly anything on the stalls — nothing to eat — people looking surreptitiously at their watches wondering if they were at all justified in slipping away home . |
| 18 | She 'd be wise to push him out of her mind — if this were at all possible — and before she made a complete idiot of herself . |
| 19 | Thanks to the air-conditioning in the bedroom , she was at last feeling slightly cooler , but clearly none of her clothes — designed to cope with the vagaries of the English weather — were at all suitable for the steamy heat of New York . |
| 20 | The evocative China Heart , with its shifting layers of sound and teasing instrumental textures jumping dramatically into a demented tango , remained the best of the songs but none of them were at all suited to Fionna Duncan 's voice or delivery . |
| 21 | He fancied being seen with two women who were at each other 's throats . |
| 22 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 23 | At the end The Bangles — Hoffs , Michael Steele and sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson — were at each other 's throats , fighting , swearing and sending each other sheep 's heads in the mail . |
| 24 | Its leaders were at each other 's throats . |
| 25 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |
| 26 | The militant socialist minorities were at each other 's throats and were completely disillusioned with the Labour Party . |
| 27 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 28 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 29 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 30 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |