Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 2 | Ironically , however , of those 71% of accountants who would like to have more holiday entitlement , 42.7% did n't even manage to use all of the time they were due at present . |
| 3 | As a result , educational structures were weak at independence , with very limited coverage above primary level for the majority of the population . |
| 4 | Plant water- and light-use efficiencies were lower at subambient [ CO 2 ] , implying that sustainable biomass and plant nutrient requirements were also lower in the past . |
| 5 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 6 | In his opinion African journalists , who often looked enviously at those in Europe and America , should understand why conditions were different at home . |
| 7 | In court the young women were cross-examined at length and accounts of this published in the press . |
| 8 | yeah and so I could see the blokes and tell them that were crap at rugby ! |
| 9 | Many sported Arab headdress , and sheepskin-lined jerkins were popular at night . |
| 10 | Last winter featured tartan themes , while metallic Sixties dresses and lurex tops were popular at Christmas . |
| 11 | The mean total scores in the chemotherapy group ( 87.5 ( SD 44 ) ) and in the supportive care group ( 80.2 ( 40 ) ) were similar at baseline , as were mean factor scores . |
| 12 | Further details were unavailable at press time , as X/Open staff worldwide were taking part in a brainstorming session , somewhere in the wilds of Devon in the UK . |
| 13 | Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row . |
| 14 | remind us we were rotten at Maths and Science . |
| 15 | All patients in group A were symptomatic at diagnosis compared with 23 of the 38 patients ( 61% ) in group B. Recurrent ascending cholangitis occurred in 12 patients in group A ( 52% ) and two patients ( 5% ) in group B. The similarity between the two groups was maintained when the nine patients in group A who developed calculi after sclerisong cholangitis was diagnosed were excluded . |
| 16 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 17 | Some of the most learned Christians of the time , including Augustine of Hippo and the biblical scholar Jerome , were ill at ease with the culture they were conscious of sharing with these pagans . |
| 18 | We led the bedraggled procession through the meadow and up to the dig where Nigel 's mature students were hard at work sifting , sorting and cataloguing . |
| 19 | No one disputes that agents of socialization were hard at work on working-class adolescents . |
| 20 | Illustrators were hard at work representing things with photographic accuracy as a way of ensuring that their scenes and figures were true to life . |
| 21 | Bishop West arrived back in Rangoon on 9th July to find that army chaplains and volunteer workers from the forces were hard at work to clean up and restore the cathedral , which had been used throughout the occupation as a factory for sauce and saki . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the other two goblins were hard at work changing the natures of Martin and Mihal . |
| 23 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 24 | As they went , Belinda 's thoughts were hard at work . |
| 25 | As the article in the Summer edition of The gusher explained , six improvement project teams were formed and were hard at work studying systems , identifying the cause of problems and formulating solutions . |
| 26 | All the prize guys who were brilliant at football had disappeared and I was left with the swots . ’ |
| 27 | The girls were late at breakfast , but Mrs Roberts did not mind . |
| 28 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 29 | They were all at breakfast and lunch . ’ |
| 30 | The girls , Flora explained , were all at home , working . |