Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five licences were granted at one session at Singleton ; three related to tiny parcels , while a whole virgate was let by a recently admitted tenant to his brother , presumably the elder , the younger having inherited under the custom of borough English , and probably under age . |
| 2 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
| 3 | Most of us were encouraged at one time to ‘ dress up ’ and look pretty . |
| 4 | Such a gradient would arise if a substance were synthesized at one end , or along one edge , of a region , and destroyed at the other . |
| 5 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 6 | It was intended at one stage to extend the line as far as Portsmouth ! |
| 7 | She was rich , beautiful , clever and amusing , and her wit became renowned ; she was featured in the picture papers , in the scandal sheets , and everyone of consequence was reported at one time or another to be going to marry her . |
| 8 | Its central way-station was located at one of the most remote places in the British empire ; Alice Springs . |
| 9 | It is unsound to argue that Svidrigailov 's experience was only a bad dream , because the manuscript variants prove that Dostoevsky was prepared at one stage to forego the actuality of the sexual outcome between Stavrogin and the child . |
| 10 | Intensity of symptoms was scored from mild=1 to severe=3 throughout the study ; the duration of symptoms was evaluated at one minute intervals . |
| 11 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 12 | BARNHAM HALL was built at one of the most confusing periods of domestic architecture in England . |
| 13 | Although it was bombed at one stage . |
| 14 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 15 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 16 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 17 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 18 | Mm and I was told at one stage that they used to revert back to Yorkshire |
| 19 | The cyclic AMP content of the suspensions was measured at one , two , and three hours . |
| 20 | I 'm sure that was agreed at one of our meetings |
| 21 | The abbot of Hailes , who kept a flock of 900 head at Longborough , was accused at one point of harassing his tenants there preparatory to enclosure , though he never went through with it . |
| 22 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 23 | A particular substance , tetra-hydro. iso-quinolone ( THIQ ) , was thought at one time to be the active chemical " cause " of addiction but this is no longer thought to be precise cause . |
| 24 | Normally the duke 's lordship was exercised at one remove although , as in Northumberland 's case , some blurring of the two retinues might ensue in practice . |
| 25 | Normally the duke 's lordship was exercised at one remove although , as in Northumberland 's case , some blurring of the two retinues might ensue in practice . |
| 26 | Prior to the 1987 Budget , the only restriction that applied was that the maximum was set at one and a half times salary . |
| 27 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 28 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 29 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 30 | I think I was asked at one stage , and I said ‘ No , not in my lifetime . ’ |