Example sentences of "the [noun sg] were [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 2 | The population were kept at a pre-technological level of civilization , with android advisers to make their lives easy . |
| 3 | The tenant 's business was rendered uneconomic and eventually the terms of the lease were renegotiated at a cost of £122,220 to the tenant . |
| 4 | The issues surrounding the project were explored at a public inquiry in Plymouth last autumn . |
| 5 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |