Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 2 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 3 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 4 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 5 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 6 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 7 | Plates were handed out at a commemorative dinner by Health Authority Chairman Maurice Proctor . |
| 8 | Worse followed when 10,000 coupons were handed out at a big match at Hull — but 9,999 vanished . |
| 9 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 10 | But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes . |
| 11 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 12 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 13 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 14 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 15 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 16 | Then , while the pirates and Famlio were staring piercingly at a new contingent of roisterers coming in , I decided to move . |
| 17 | The results were followed up at a second Latin American consultation which was held in São Leopoldo , Brazil , in July 1992 . |
| 18 | Large fractured areas of lateral cell membranes of surface mucous cells were observed randomly at a direct magnification of 15000 using electron microscopy . |
| 19 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 20 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 21 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 23 | He was educated privately at a small school run by his father at Hardenhuish rectory , and latterly at Claverton Lodge School , Bath , run by his uncle Francis Kilvert [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 25 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 26 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 27 | The agreement at Smiths Industries , Cheltenham , ending a three-week strike at the plant was accepted overwhelmingly at a mass meeting yesterday . |
| 28 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 29 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 30 | The cholinergic agonist carbachol was infused intra-arterially at a final concentration of 0.1 µmol/l to maintain consistent motor activity . |