Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Fyfe , all three were to remain at these places until the end of their working lives . |
| 2 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 3 | Now in this particular period if you were looking at these figures just like this , what would be your automatic reaction in terms of the type of holidays we ought to be providing ? |
| 4 | Average prices had fallen by about 2% and , despite cost-cutting , were continuing at these levels in April . |
| 5 | These arguments are subject to the same criticisms , regarding ethnocentrism and academic-centredness that were levelled at these writers , both in terms of their assumptions regarding literacy and those regarding ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 6 | No wonder I like things I was looking at these tights , yeah , it 's just one pair , and they were about eight pounds |
| 7 | The rate of failures has been declining through the 1980s and the last time it was running at these levels was 1984 , when 3,924 businesses failed . |
| 8 | The future policy of the Association was discussed at these meetings . |
| 9 | The record goes on to show that it was not only the handing over of the Yugoslavs that was discussed at these conferences . |