Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When " comprehension moves " were made they were most frequently noted at the end of a read , although there was often no follow-up on understanding text at all . |
| 2 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 3 | Reading and eating were always metaphorically linked at the time . |
| 4 | Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels . |
| 5 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 6 | Ironically , at the time both were leading such hectic lives that even though they were both still living at the family home in Melbourne they had almost no time to spend together . |
| 7 | They were both still laughing at the memory when the off sales bell rang . |
| 8 | Sergeev and Mishakov won heaps of line-out possession but they were often poorly supported at the set-pieces by the rest of the pack , while Tikhonov was a forceful No.8 . |
| 9 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 10 | I observed this routine the day after I learned that my services were no longer required at the Oxford International Language College , and I knew that barring an Act of God I could set my watch by it thereafter . |
| 11 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 12 | Until that late date , the Cecils successfully opposed any move to enclose the fields , for reasons which were never fully disclosed at the time . |