Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you were caught speeding at 90 miles an hour along the M4 in Wiltshire your fine would calculate something like this |
| 2 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 3 | We were told to stay at 10,000 feet — unrealistic for our Tri-Pacer — because the terrorists in the mountains might shoot at us . |
| 4 | Even in the second set , where memories were specifically pressed , one third of the grandparents who were remembered had at some time lived in the same household . |
| 5 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 6 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 7 | Although the gliders were left facing at right angles to the wind and were weighted down with tyres in the approved manner , when the first strong thermal went off nearby the wind would become gusty and change direction completely . |
| 8 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 9 | New courses which resulted from these changes began in September 1984 and parents were kept informed at all stages . |
| 10 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |