Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 2 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 3 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 4 | Although his actions were widely condemned at the time and subsequently , it is a more open question whether his objectives were so much at odds with those of his government . |
| 5 | The results were widely interpreted at the time as a personal vindication for the General . |
| 6 | HLA class I and class II alleles were serologically typed at the Tissue Typing Laboratory , NSW Division , Australian Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service using the standard National Institutes of Health test for class I and a modified National Institutes of Health test using immunomagnetic beads for class II . |
| 7 | That this was due not merely to right-wing and civil service sabotage is clearly recognised by the left MPs who were most involved at the time . |
| 8 | In such an institution , he felt , there was bound to be a number of aged people of unsound mind simply because of age ; they were better kept at the workhouse with a special attendant , and in a ground floor ward . |
| 9 | Given any example of a classic scientific theory , whether at the time of its first proposal or at a later date , it is possible to find observational claims that were generally accepted at the time and were considered to be inconsistent with the theory . |
| 10 | The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment . |
| 11 | In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo . |
| 12 | However , since those changes were not finalised at the date of going to press and further revisions are possible in the light of comments it is not appropriate to review them here . |
| 13 | In a statement tonight , the Hunt said the hounds were not hunting at the time of incident and were not out of control . |
| 14 | Similarly , mental hospitals were not built at the suggestion of psychiatrists , and psychiatrists have not been responsible as a profession for their run-down and closure . |
| 15 | Leading anti-whaling nations such as Ireland , France and New Zealand were not represented at the Madrid meeting . |
| 16 | The effect of the Acts ‘ was to remove legal immunity from almost all forms of industrial action that were not aimed at the worker 's immediate employer or related conditions of work ’ . |
| 17 | Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course . |
| 18 | Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together . |
| 19 | Human rights , during the cold war , were largely ignored at the Security Council , which is the only UN body with teeth . |
| 20 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 21 | ‘ They were desperately unhip at the start , and they probably still are . |
| 22 | The descriptions are a mixture of quotations from texts which were already known at the time of writing , when Rahewin completed the work of Otto von Freising . |
| 23 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 24 | The new patterns of the economy , the steady decline of manufacturing industry ( in which 6.5 m. of the population were directly employed at the end of the seventies ) as against the rise of the service and transport sector ( which employed 7.25 m. at the start of 1980 ) also told in favour of the redistribution of resources in favour of particular regions and occupational groups . |
| 25 | The boys , on a two-week holiday , were quickly comforted at the show in Bridgend , South Wales . |
| 26 | It was always going to be a difficult fixture for lowly Millmead Reserves against high-fliers Shottermill Reserves , and the visitors ' hopes were totally dashed at the start when they could only field nine men . |
| 27 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 28 | The women though were more offended at the attitude of the Council . |
| 29 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 30 | Finnan was shouting commands and swords were still flashing at the beasts who fought to clamber on board . |