Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 3 | When W. C. T. was two years old his mother gave birth to his brother John ; the pair of them were baptised together at the parish church on 21 January 1775 . |
| 4 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 5 | Police are particularly anxious to trace a courting couple who were seen nearby at the time of the attack . |
| 6 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 7 | The accounts of the parish officers were audited annually at the Easter Vestry Meeting . |
| 8 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 9 | During each of the six weeks of the scheme , children from both sides of the divide in Belfast were brought together at the centre for a week of water sports . |
| 10 | ‘ But John calmed down and things were settled amicably at the end of the day , ’ he said . |
| 11 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 12 | Flames were licking hungrily at the material ; it was blazing fiercely . |
| 13 | Already bodies were floating sullenly at the bow , and others were drifting slowly downstream . |
| 14 | ISSUES of major significance were discussed separately at the conference by a series of ‘ think tank ’ syndicates . |
| 15 | His legal training and knowledge of the workings of the Roman curia were put tirelessly at the service of the Crown . |
| 16 | Lady Roscarrock glanced at her husband , whose eyes were directed firmly at the rush matting . |
| 17 | These remarks it should be noted were directed specifically at the Republican Congressional leadership by the man with the primary responsibility for persuading congress to accept the president 's domestic programme . |
| 18 | Both coxes were warned again at the Crab Tree , where Cambridge began to show in front . |
| 19 | These papers were debated inconclusively at the Defence Committee meeting on 5 April 1946 ; further inconclusive discussion followed on 27 May 1946 and again on 19 July . |
| 20 | Even in the peak of recruiting in 1800 , a substantial number of men were sent home at the behest of the Duke of Richmond , to stop the harvest from being spoilt . |
| 21 | It is good that both these kennels , who were established right at the start of the breed 's development , are still active today . |
| 22 | His on-stage father would unsnap the child 's clothes , which were held together at the back by a clasp , pack them with toothbrush , pyjamas , and reading matter , and throw the patient luggage at an assistant stage manager dressed as a railway porter . |
| 23 | ‘ What the hell , ’ the Maggot said , and he wrenched the plane round in a tight turn until we were aimed plumb at the island 's southernmost tip , then he dropped the nose ready to make one high speed and low level pass above the Cay . |
| 24 | If he were aimed specifically at the race another time he would probably go very close . |
| 25 | In addition , they supported the principle that receipt of the National Insurance pension should be conditional on retirement , because they feared that employers would treat pensions as a subsidy for wages if they were paid automatically at the age of 65 ( ibid . ) . |
| 26 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 27 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 28 | Heparin ( 2000 IU ) was given intravenously at the beginning of the procedure . |
| 29 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 30 | Her hand lay gently on his shoulder , barely pressing against him , yet it seemed he was gathered there at the point of contact , his whole self focused in her touch . |