Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 2 | Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end , including the actress Angelica . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Environmentalists and fishermen were protesting at the devastating effects of the Spanish and Italian drift-net fishery for swordfish . |
| 6 | A score of older cadets were waiting at the far end behind what was evidently a transparent plascrystal wall . |
| 7 | Two chambermaids were standing at a respectful distance , watching his efforts in some awe . |
| 8 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 9 | Nalgo members were protesting at the proposed closure of a 24-hour crisis intervention centre . |
| 10 | The demonstrators were protesting at the imminent loss of 5,000 jobs in the region in the mining , steel , shipbuilding and fertilizer industries , and expressing fears for the future of at least half of Cartagana 's active workforce of 60,000 . |
| 11 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 12 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 13 | Two men were standing at the further end of the clearing shooting at a wand . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 16 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |