Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were developed at that time as a useful product for the , for the menfolk . |
| 2 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 3 | Wooden platforms or stages were erected at different levels , so that men working on the various portions of the vehicle were facilitated in their task . |
| 4 | Oesophageal body amplitudes were calculated at 5 ( distal ) , 10 ( middle ) , and 15 ( proximal ) cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter as the mean of 10 consecutive readings . |
| 5 | Drexel assets were calculated at some $2,600 million and it was agreed to divide these between the bank 's creditors and the various litigants . |
| 6 | But if my own suspicions were aroused at that moment , Lord Darlington evidently did not share them . |
| 7 | What if the Prime Minister were assassinated at five past nine , in time for a satellite station 's nine o'clock news , but 55 minutes before News at Ten ? |
| 8 | Parler brought with him the influence of the Cologne school and , though only the choir and chapels with part of the south façade were completed at this time , it is interesting to compare , both on exterior and interior , the work of Matthias on the lower part and Parler on the upper ( 532 and 533 ) . |
| 9 | Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing . |
| 10 | When he was on the field , chairs were placed at regular intervals along each touchline so that when he made a break on the wing , he had plenty of opportunity to rest before continuing his blistering run . |
| 11 | Weights were placed at all the corners of the sketches to stop them springing back into tight rolls . |
| 12 | Additionally , hogsheads were placed at various points , around which the bullards could manoeuvre and George Burton claims that ‘ It is notorious that the Stamford Bullards were amongst the most courageous men to be found in the country . ’ |
| 13 | Feeders ( 5cm vertical tubes on a movable base ) were placed at various locations within the inner 49 pixel grid ( 20cmx20cm each , shaded grey ) and analyses of time spent per pixel were conducted throughout the outer 121 pixel grid ( white ) . |
| 14 | An article in Politika at the end of 1986 ( 10 December ) , when the rate of inflation was moving up towards 100 per cent , reported that loans from the Federal Fund were given at 10 per cent ( 9 per cent in Kosovo ) with a repayment period of twelve years . |
| 15 | A minimum of 10 , 5 ml boluses of water were given at 30 second intervals . |
| 16 | To this a variety of solutions were given at different times . |
| 17 | They were withdrawn at that time but enacted in 1894 along with provisions ‘ to introduce local self-government into rural parishes ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:216 ) . |
| 18 | Aliquots of the cultures were withdrawn at different time intervals in order to determine the cell counts . |
| 19 | It were raining at five o'clock this morning . |
| 20 | In a second condition , single chords were heard at each ear . |
| 21 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 22 | Set a daunting 248 to win by the tourists , New Zealand were struggling at 94 for four and needing to score at over seven runs an over , but Crowe and a timely 44 not out off 28 balls by teenager Jeff Wilson saw the Kiwis home at 250 for seven . |
| 23 | A potentially embarrassing incident at last weekend 's Steam Gala on the Llangollen Railway , turned into a triumph for the volunteer P-Way and operational staff who , by chance , were gathered at Glyndyfrdwy station writes COLIN JAMES . |
| 24 | The manual operation of broadcasting a recognition signal to the platforms in orbit around Tarvaras had been duplicated simultaneously by four automatic sending stations which were situated at various points along the Simonova 's mainframe . |
| 25 | Impractical , because if all areas of the curriculum were treated at this level of detail , hundreds or even thousands of criteria would be produced ; educationally unacceptable because of the curriculum fragmentation which would result since it would be difficult to link up such large numbers of criteria . |
| 26 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 27 | As the liquid cooled in the veins , the crystals of tin ores were formed at greater depths than those of copper ores . |
| 28 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 29 | As long as there was a substantial number of people in each group , the groups would start the experiment having the same political preferences on average , since the groups were formed at random . |
| 30 | The West Germans were becoming increasingly eager to cultivate relations across the Iron Curtain , and both sides were hinting at new arms talks . |