Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period of contraction , both passenger and freight services were withdrawn at an alarming rate , being substituted by short-lived bus services and road freight transport . |
| 2 | Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost . |
| 3 | Seconds later , they were installed at an umbrella-shaded table with the little boy sitting in state alongside . |
| 4 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 5 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
| 6 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 7 | If no standardized language were used at an international tournament , with referees , judges , timekeepers and competitors from all over the world , utter confusion would reign . |
| 8 | When the delegates assembled for the Special Conference on August 15th they heard a lot of revolutionary-sounding rhetoric from leaders who knew that they were kicking at an open door . |
| 9 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | New techniques of production were introduced at an accelerating rate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The talks began early yesterday morning and were continuing at an undisclosed venue . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For centuries trees were cut at an early stage to encourage timber to grow from the stumps : ash , field maple , hazel , hornbeam . |
| 19 | Balliol 's letters patent acknowledging the English king 's overlordship of Scotland were discussed at an ill-attended parliament which met at York in December 1332 . |
| 20 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 21 | Two of them , the Hadera alignment and the Red Sea alignment , were eliminated at an early stage . |
| 22 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 23 | Maybe not that tense We were lunching at an emeried chalet off Bank Street in the West Village — licensed , sure , but with a suspicion of health food , of careful eating , of macrobiotics and longevity . |
| 24 | The aircraft crashed just 30 yards from buildings where 40 people were working at an agricultural firm in Buckinghamshire . |
| 25 | These , which were read at an ordinary meeting of members , said that the administration had broken faith with the profession through not fulfilling the conditions on which ‘ a large body of professional men ’ had entered the competition . |
| 26 | Few clear-cut working plans for training sessions were established at an early stage , although attitudes varied . |
| 27 | They were first styled nobiles viri only in 1256 , and a tendency towards a late crystallization of a titled noblesse at this level is found in much of south-west France , with the possible exception of the vicomté of Béarn and other areas where primogeniture and impartible inheritance were established at an earlier date . |
| 28 | It was realised at an early stage that the earthwork plan belied a very complex situation and that there were clearly at least two phases of development . |
| 29 | As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training . |
| 30 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |