Example sentences of "[pron] were [noun pl] at the " in BNC.

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1 Many restraints , as in Commercial Plastics , refer to the fact that a party may not solicit or compete with the other party in relation to those who were customers at the date of the determination of the contract .
2 An action duly brought against a firm is an effective action against all those who were partners at the date the cause of action accrued ( and so , for example , an order for discovery will be in essence an order for discovery against all those persons ) , and this is irrespective of subsequent changes in the composition of the firm .
3 Also starring among the patterns are three motif sweaters designed by school children who were prize-winners at the Hobby Horse show in Cwmbran , whilst for animal lovers we have Wendy Phillips ' giant panda chewing his bamboo or Iris Bishop 's fox slinking through the September woods .
4 They asked her for ‘ pen portraits ’ of the seven children who were pupils at the school .
5 The Labour Government was not prepared to let those who were pensioners at the time die in poverty , while awaiting the gradual implementation of a new scheme .
6 We were co-worshippers at the Surfside Pyramid . ’
7 There were moves at the next table .
8 But there were others at the auction who thought the picture should never have been sold .
9 There were times at the Oval when both sides had thoughts of winning ; at one point the bookmakers quoted 100 to 1 against a West Indies victory , but a day later they were 5 to 4 when England 's Pythonesque second innings was at its nadir .
10 There were examinations at the end of the college year , in May .
11 Passing on now to the Cretaceous , there were Complications at the beginning of that period , perhaps related to the poorly dated orogenies of other parts of the world .
12 There were faces at the glass of the windows watching their approach .
13 There were faces at the barrier , people craning for a last look .
14 In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain .
15 There were queues at the till , until customers started walking out .
16 It is clear that there were disagreements at the highest levels on the timing of the abolition of Pomgol and the export of grain .
17 He moved towards her , opening his arms , and I saw there were tears at the corners of his eyes .
18 There were turrets at the corners and a guardhouse over the entrance .
19 She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was !
20 There was a special dispensation given to her to attend and in fact there were photographs at the time with the Queen with her .
21 The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion .
22 There were guys at the factory that Anton liked ; in a place with some fifty men , there must be some you like .
23 But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge .
24 ( 1 ) A new licence shall come into effect on being granted by a licensing board , except that where there were objections at the hearing the licence shall not come into effect until : ( a ) the time within which an appeal may be made has elapsed , or : ( b ) where an appeal has been lodged , the appeal has been abandoned or determined in favour of the applicant for the licence .
25 Anthony spent as much time with Julia as he could , but there were patients at the hospital who were iller even than she and at times he had to leave her with Comfort and Annunziata .
26 There were voices at the doors and then blinding sunlight sprang into the van .
27 Rabbiting on as if — as if they were friends at the very least …
28 They were students at the University of Glasgow , and had no knowledge of the point of the experiment .
29 They were toddlers at the time of Watergate , not yet 10 when Mrs Thatcher came to power , Nato decided to introduce cruise and Pershing missiles and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan .
30 The overall incidence of symptomatic gall stones among the 20819 women who said they were smokers at the start of the study was 20% higher than that found among the 25558 non-smokers .
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