Example sentences of "[adj] were at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 2 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 3 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 4 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 5 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 6 | How many were at the school ? |
| 7 | By October 1989 only three City Technology Colleges had actually opened , although eleven more were at the planning stage . |
| 8 | Altogether about 50 were at the reunion which included a splendid lunch . |
| 9 | Twenty infants aged between three and five were at the playgroud and the police have confirmed they will all be interviewed , along with four staff members and several other mothers . |