Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety-three survivors were reviewed at a mean of 53 weeks after infarction . |
| 2 | Three subjects were taken at A level and they were usually taken as packages of closely related studies : physics , chemistry , and mathematics ; French , German , and English ; history , geography , and economics . |
| 3 | Each field started with 95 cells and images were taken at a rate of 12 frames per hour . |
| 4 | When interpreting these tables it should be remembered that no matter how many animals were stolen at a time the case was recorded as one theft . |
| 5 | Smokers were recruited at a smoking cessation clinic while the nonsmokers were recruited at a church meeting . |
| 6 | Windsurfers and cruising chutes were provided at a cost of £100 for two weeks each . |
| 7 | These roles were pursued at a time when the ideas , language , and values underpinning social care were changing rapidly and when resource constraints were worsening . |
| 8 | In two recent books which attempt to examine the philosophy and practice of a radical adult education , the only substantial references to education for trade unionists are historical ; yet both books were conceived at a time of unparalleled expansion in trade union education , underpinned by a sizeable government grant and the first statutory entitlements to paid educational leave for working-class people that Britain has ever experienced . |
| 9 | Initial responses were given at a meeting on 13 January . |
| 10 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 11 | Rollers were wound at an angle , spiralling hair around the curlers to give a firm pincurled result . |
| 12 | Monoclonal antibodies were used at a dilution of 1:2 . |
| 13 | NINETEEN blacks were massacred at a taxi-rank near Johannesburg last night in an attack the African National Congress said was aimed at derailing the transition to majority rule . |
| 14 | In the attack , at Forest Gate , east London , two petrol-filled milk bottles were hurled at a window . |
| 15 | If donations were taken at a service , they were left at the door either on the way in or on the way out . |
| 16 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 17 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 18 | During the 1980s , legislation and public subsidies were directed at an increase in owner-occupation and an attack on council housing . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , emergency control boards were established at a number of mines where strikes had been continuing . |
| 20 | Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills . |
| 21 | Most of the English statements were written at a level of generality that allows for extremely wide interpretation . |
| 22 | For unlabelled RNAs , all ribotriphosphates were used at a concentration of 2.5 mM . |
| 23 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 24 | On January 18 , 1961 , those two principles were agreed at a meeting at the Ministry of Labour four days before an all-out strike was to take place . |
| 25 | The figures were revealed at a conference in Edinburgh , highlighting the problems facing young people in care . |
| 26 | No stock count was done at the end of the month-but all goods were sold at a price based on the cost price plus one third . |
| 27 | Pelites were sampled at a density of one or two per square kilometre , and from the results of the survey , contoured maps of metamorphic grade for the Lower Palaeozoic strata in the Rhayader and Llanilar areas were generated . |
| 28 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 29 | These marked a shift from communal use to individual use , although individual items were connected at a household level by a common pattern , as found in the modern set of china . |
| 30 | A big loss was suffered on the course in 1975 when 40 elm trees were felled at a cost of £1,400 owing to Dutch Elm Disease . |