Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 2 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 3 | They were first styled nobiles viri only in 1256 , and a tendency towards a late crystallization of a titled noblesse at this level is found in much of south-west France , with the possible exception of the vicomté of Béarn and other areas where primogeniture and impartible inheritance were established at an earlier date . |
| 4 | The population were kept at a pre-technological level of civilization , with android advisers to make their lives easy . |
| 5 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 6 | The strongest argument in favour of the taxpayers is the anomaly which would arise if the employer 's business were running at a loss or was subsidised by endowment . |
| 7 | NEW uniforms for Ballinacross Accordion Band were dedicated at a service in Knockloughrim Maghera yesterday . |
| 8 | Later , an American naval officer and his wife were arrested at a roadblock . |
| 9 | Rapid changes in higher education were forecast at a meeting of Darlington Soroptimists . |
| 10 | Facilities for X-ray were installed , and a new operating table and lamp were obtained at a total cost of £150 . |
| 11 | So at least eight people with Down 's syndrome were disenfranchised at an early stage by their parents or their electoral registration authority . |
| 12 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 13 | Antisera recognizing rat TAP1 ( ref. 5 ) and a new , previously undescribed antiserum raised against the rat TAP2 C-terminal sequence EQDVYAHLVQQRLEA were used at a 1/1,000 dilution . |
| 14 | The tenant 's business was rendered uneconomic and eventually the terms of the lease were renegotiated at a cost of £122,220 to the tenant . |
| 15 | The findings of a recent mission to Japan to study developments in neural computing and parallel processing were reported at a meeting held at the Café Royal on the 4th December . |
| 16 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | Details of the improved mosfet were revealed at a recent VLSI technology symposium in Japan . |
| 18 | After an uncomfortable night tossing about on board the steamer , on arrival Mrs Gould , her maid Mary , and the baby were lodged at an inn in Newcastle , while Gould took the opportunity of visiting some of the islands in the estuary . |
| 19 | Complaints about bad service and housekeeping were running at an ‘ alarmingly high ’ level , said the 1993 edition of The Good Pub Guide . |
| 20 | The building works associated with this Contract were undertaken at a total cost of £800,000 by G.J. Seddon Limited , Builders and Contractors , within the specified contract period . |
| 21 | The lower order changes in responsibility were considered at a later stage when working with Principals to determine the detailed changes required at individual Colleges . |
| 22 | Mary Ann Doane 's argument concerning the ‘ women 's films ’ of the 1940s , for example , was that these products of mainstream fiction cinema were directed at a female audience and thus did construct a female gaze . |
| 23 | Working guidelines concerning the imprisonment or harassment of people due to their sexuality were agreed at an IEC meeting in December and are being incorporated into the Mandate — Ed . |
| 24 | The issues surrounding the project were explored at a public inquiry in Plymouth last autumn . |
| 25 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 26 | RICE wines made from a recipe given last year were presented at an annual members ' judging evening of the Alresford and District Wine Circle at the John Pearson Hall last week . |
| 27 | The 1927 powers of detention were conferred at a time of enormous concern about the high birth rate of mental defectives and the supposed decline in the ‘ national intelligence ’ . |
| 28 | In the run up to a Home International game at Hampden , the Scotland squad were assembled at a hotel in Troon . |
| 29 | Far from living the high life in Florida , he said the first six weeks after the raid were spent at an unidentified caravan site in Clacton . |
| 30 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |