Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 2 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were all at this well-attended W.I. meeting , where not only hats , but coats and fur stoles seems to have been the thing . |
| 4 | We were all at sixes and sevens , getting in one another 's way . |
| 5 | Whilst there were many at this level of farming there were also those who were struggling to get going . |
| 6 | There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity . |
| 7 | One historian has written that the criticism was not that the charges were too high , but that there were any at all and has explained the opposition to fixed charges as conservative reaction to a money economy in which one paid for services rendered . |