Example sentences of "were at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They swam , they talked , they wrote their diaries and stories , and were at ease in a succession of remote and sticky places . |
| 2 | Clive Swift , in his admirable and essential book The Job of Acting says that when you were at drama school ‘ you were a big fish — now you 're a tiddler ’ . |
| 3 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 4 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 5 | Some feared the use of the schools by proselytizers to indoctrinate the children in protestant principles , especially as the local managers were at first mainly clergy of the established church . |
| 6 | There were at this point no apparent difficulties experienced between the majority of estate members and no significant source of conflict , that is until the question of a multi-denominational school itself became such a source . |
| 7 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 8 | During March there were at least 14 pairs of frogs , plus toads ( and spawn ) . |
| 9 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 10 | Cameron was thinking : Those upland folk who were at Kenmore this morning — they nearly all kept on towards Tummel when we forked north-west for Rannoch . |
| 11 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
| 12 | inspectors from the Department of Transport were at the scene |
| 13 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 14 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 15 | Major incidents were at Wembley , Eccles , and Morpeth . |
| 16 | CAMRA were at the forefront of the fight to rescue the brewery . |
| 17 | This time last year Bulmers shares were at 170p , today they are near to 260p . |
| 18 | Tate , an ambitious poet whose few irreplaceable poems were yet to come , was by 1927 in animated correspondence with two poets , Yvor Winters ( 1900–1968 ) and Hart Crane ( 1899-1932 ) , who were at one , if in little else , in their certainty that Eliot 's fame and Eliot 's precedent were bad news for American poetry . |
| 19 | According to Anthony Preece , director of operations at investment group Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers , speaking at last week 's conference , there were at least 13 different design concepts for the future Taurus system under discussion in the City as of March this year . |
| 20 | About 500 people were at the party , in a barn at Elmstone Hardwicke near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire . |
| 21 | IN THE mid-1980s press stories about coniferous trees in German forests losing their needles were at their peak . |
| 22 | In other words , the symptoms were at their worst during the hot , dry summers of the early Eighties and started to improve in subsequent wet summers . |
| 23 | Dr Maurice Slevin , a consultant physician at the department of medical oncology at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , said the chances of a woman being alive and well four years after such treatment were at least 75 per cent . |
| 24 | These unfavourable contrasts were commonplace at the beginning of the decade and were at the heart of the centrist critique of two-party politics as then played . |
| 25 | While the Government 's plans to double spending on roads were at odds with its proclaimed conversion to green issues , Labour 's new policies recognised the need to drastically cut congestion and pollution from vehicle emissions . |
| 26 | Fewer than 27,000 were at Old Trafford on Tuesday night to see the sequel to a thrilling first leg of a Littlewoods Cup-tie against Second Division Portsmouth . |
| 27 | WHEN the Indian princes were at the height of their outrageous fortune , the Maharajah of Bharatpur had 24 Rolls-Royces in his garage . |
| 28 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |
| 29 | From Monday to Thursday every week Milton and Arnold were at home to friends from 5pm to theatre time . |
| 30 | On the other hand , when you see thousands climbing over the embassy railings as if the Devil were at their heels , you think you must be stupid to stay . ’ |