Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost . |
| 2 | Few clear-cut working plans for training sessions were established at an early stage , although attitudes varied . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For centuries trees were cut at an early stage to encourage timber to grow from the stumps : ash , field maple , hazel , hornbeam . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 7 | Fresh unrest erupted in the Gaza Strip after troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian boy on March 27 , and later that day shots were fired at an Israeli military vehicle near Hebron . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During this period of contraction , both passenger and freight services were withdrawn at an alarming rate , being substituted by short-lived bus services and road freight transport . |