Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They toured with another Leeds ' band , Age Of Chance , who were breaking at a faster pace than themselves . |
| 32 | These plans were aired at a recent conference celebrating the 80th birthday of Hans Kosterlitz , one of the discoverers of endogenous opiates . |
| 33 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 34 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 35 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 36 | Far from living the high life in Florida , he said the first six weeks after the raid were spent at an unidentified caravan site in Clacton . |
| 37 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 38 | New techniques of production were introduced at an accelerating rate . |
| 39 | use animals , and then go onto to work using animals , and erm you know , if maybe alternative techniques were introduced at an earlier stage , maybe in their training , they 'd be more likely to them on board . |
| 40 | The teams were introduced at an auspicious moment in that the social services department budget had improved suddenly and substantially , enabling the CMHTs to be staffed with social workers specifically appointed for their commitment to the developmental ideal . |
| 41 | The talks began early yesterday morning and were continuing at an undisclosed venue . |
| 42 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 43 | Erm for instance in the period eighty nine to ninety two , we were running at an annual average of about a hundred and seventy four conversions a year . |
| 44 | The pleas were entered at an earlier court which heard the charges arose out of the removal and subsequent sale of gents clothing from the store as well as what was described as the ‘ creaming off ’ of cash from sales at the counter . |
| 45 | A fortnight ago , human remains were found at a remote clearing near Coppull in Central Lancashire . |
| 46 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |
| 47 | On the same day some 300 students were arrested at a pro-SDF march at Yaoundé university . |
| 48 | The two men were arrested at a Bosnian checkpoint last November when they made a wrong turn while driving through the Serb-held western outskirts of Sarajevo . |
| 49 | Two Irish sisters were arrested at a rented house in Southall , West London . |
| 50 | Out of this it was agreed that services ( unemployment relief , pensions , education , etc. ) were provided at a similar level to those in Britain and if there was any money left , an ‘ imperial contribution ’ was paid towards the cost of common services such as the armed forces and the cost of conducting foreign policy . |
| 51 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 52 | Over the third quarter of this year , he told parliament , output by Soviet industry had risen at a rate of one per cent while wages were soaring at an annual pace of 15 per cent . |
| 53 | A few other ministers were involved at a later stage . |
| 54 | For centuries trees were cut at an early stage to encourage timber to grow from the stumps : ash , field maple , hazel , hornbeam . |
| 55 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 56 | In September 1871 Japan concluded a commercial treaty with China , under which consular jurisdiction was to operate in both countries , tariffs were fixed at a low level and there was no most-favoured-nation clause . |
| 57 | Israeli police have shot dead twenty one Arabs in Jerusalem , and injured one hundred others who were protesting at a planned march by hard line Jews . |
| 58 | A total of 98 governments were represented at a 10-day conference in London on June 19-29 held to agree revisions to the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer . |
| 59 | Well , I mean you may be right I ca n't be I 'm not I 'm not absolutely certain myself but er it would be nice to think that we were represented at a local authority level , yeah , by different cross-sections of our community . |
| 60 | Patients sent to the lunatic asylum , which was off the Ampthill Road , were charged at a weekly rate to the directors according to the numbers ; in 1818 for example , the cost was £18.12s. , but two years later , £78 . |