Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prototype units were designed at the international workshops and discussed and modified in the field for the APSP was far more decentralised than the Mathematics programme . |
| 2 | For this reason the constables of many royal castles were appointed at the same time to be wardens of neighbouring forests : the constable of Rockingham castle was usually warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ; the constable of Porchester kept Bere Porchester Forest ; the constable of Devizes kept Chippenham and Melksham Forests ; the constable of St Briavels the Forest of Dean ; the constable of Castleton the Forest of the Peak ; and the constable of Windsor castle was also warden of Windsor Forest . |
| 3 | Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost . |
| 4 | She became an accomplished pianist and several of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy . |
| 5 | Subjects were studied at the same time of day on four occasions at least seven days apart . |
| 6 | The lower clergy were to pay at the reduced rate of the 1254 valuation , but , far more significantly , the tax was to be collected , supervised and delivered to the king by the clergy themselves — a procedure thereafter tenaciously preserved by Winchelsey and his successors . |
| 7 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 8 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 9 | Some books were purchased at the divisional library and these were augmented by orders based on individual teachers ' specialist knowledge and individual visits , undertaken on their own initiative to bookshops in various places . |
| 10 | In the USA , until 1986 , all gains and losses on futures contracts were taxed at the long-term rate of tax , while gains and losses on shares held for less than six months were taxed at the higher short-term rate . |
| 11 | Few clear-cut working plans for training sessions were established at an early stage , although attitudes varied . |
| 12 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 13 | Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets . |
| 14 | About halfway between Venice and the modern city of Trieste there is another island lagoon formation at Grado , where settlements were established at the same time as those in the Venetian lagoon . |
| 15 | Originally the bones were kept at the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 16 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |
| 17 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 18 | Two further appointments were made at the same time . |
| 19 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 20 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 21 | By 1926 eleven British and four continental centres had opened ; in 1938 , with assets totalling £100,000 , 45,169 guest weeks were taken at the thirty British and twenty-two overseas centres which spread from Brittany to Poland and Czechoslovakia . |
| 22 | Their reservations were voiced at the long-running Sizewell public inquiry , where the Suffolk local authorities have just finished their evidence . |
| 23 | Over 500 of the company 's workers were protesting at the possible closure of the British-controlled company , following reports that its main creditor bank had threatened to withdraw funding . |
| 24 | Additional awards were made at a later stage to three individuals who were unable to attend . |
| 25 | The awards were presented at the annual coaches dinner sponsored by the Post Office . |
| 26 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 27 | But in reality such protests were conducted at a low level in order not to interfere with normal , and reasonably good , relations which British foreign secretaries wished to continue and nurture with the offending nations . |
| 28 | A total of 98 governments were represented at a 10-day conference in London on June 19-29 held to agree revisions to the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer . |
| 29 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown at a late-night party . |
| 30 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |