Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 2 | We flunkeys were all at the front door to receive the family from the airfield . |
| 3 | Only a handful of people were in the pub and they were all at the other end . |
| 4 | There were still celebrated Marxist historians , such as E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm , Christopher Hill , and John Saville , but they were all at the veteran stage , and there appeared to be no significant youthful successors , as their creed withered throughout eastern Europe . |
| 5 | Three concrete blocks were cemented to the patio stones at the rear of the new pond as a base for this filter — it was important that these were all at the same level . |
| 6 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 7 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 8 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 9 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |