Example sentences of "they were [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 2 | They were treated at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for minor injuries . |
| 3 | They were painted at the Royal Academy Schools when I was a student immediately before the closing of the Schools in 1940 . |
| 4 | The reason they 're rich in oxygen is because they were formed at the polar regions , alright ? |
| 5 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 6 | They were halted at the outer guardhouse at the aforementioned trench , to identify themselves . |
| 7 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 8 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 9 | They were met at the front door by a delirious spaniel , who clearly had no idea of funeral decorum , and they proceeded into the front room , where Bill Clough switched on a bulging orangey imitation-coal electric fire , and then went to a horrible drinks cabinet — all plastic and flashing lights . |
| 10 | When these wagons arrived in the Underframe Shop they were unloaded at the required points or areas by hand-operated overhead travelling cranes in the ancillary bays , adjacent to the main workshop area . |
| 11 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 12 | ‘ They were aimed at the American market , and quite simply did n't work . |
| 13 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 14 | They were sold at the New Caledonian Market in Southwark during the half light before sunrise to an art dealer who did not know they were stolen . |
| 15 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |