Example sentences of "[was/were] employed at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 720 men were employed at the colliery . |
| 2 | You were employed at the Child Poverty Action Group on the basis of a generous grant from the Noel Buxton Trust and the City Parochial Foundation . |
| 3 | Only six ( 9 per cent ) of the network sample were employed at the time of interview while 58 ( 91 per cent ) were unemployed . |
| 4 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 5 | Meantime , he was employed at the local grocery store as a delivery boy delivering groceries to the local customers on his bike . |
| 6 | He was employed at the time at Killingworth colliery , in charge of the steam engines used to raise coal and water from the mines . |
| 7 | In 1369 a trebuchet , used for slinging stones , was employed at the siege of La-Roche-sur-Yon , and in 1356–7 another was in evidence at the siege of Rennes ; as late as 1378 another was in use before Cherbourg , having been brought there in pieces and assembled on the spot . |
| 8 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |