Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 2 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 3 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 4 | If they were allowed to breed at random and each live life to its natural end , in the absence of any real predators , they would overrun the land , destroy the habitat in an ever-desperate search for food , and upset the eco-system . |
| 5 | Advisory groups were created to look at various educational issues . |
| 6 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 7 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |
| 8 | Finally , an evaluation which was constrained to look at stated objectives alone would forego opportunities to develop theoretical and empirical models which have general application over and above the particular initiative under scrutiny . |
| 9 | In other work , binding of the yeast mitochondrial protein ABF2 was found to occur at regular phased sequences containing stretches of poly ( dA ) , which exclude the protein ( 41 ) . |
| 10 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 11 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |