Example sentences of "they were [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 2 | They were seated at a small table with a red checked cloth surmounted by a clean one of starched white linen , with two glass beakers , two knives and two forks , and a basket of the most delicious freshly baked bread . |
| 3 | They were part of a group of students returning from Stratford to London where they were registered at a college on Picadilly . |
| 4 | They were dining at a common table , and a man sitting opposite to them begged to differ . |
| 5 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 6 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 7 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 8 | The Commission regarded this difference of treatment as deterring companies registered in other member states from setting up agencies and branches , since they were placed at a disadvantage vis-à-vis French companies . |
| 9 | They found that when women spent time out of paid work bringing up their children they were placed at a disadvantage on the labour market . |
| 10 | They were pushing at a partially open door as far as Britain was concerned . |
| 11 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
| 12 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 13 | They were standing at a collapsible map table Schellenberg had erected , the plans of St Mary 's Priory spread before them . |
| 14 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 15 | They were sitting at a round table . |
| 16 | IXI describes the software as a virtual workspace — the product enables users to operate and work in a windowing environment that extends well beyond the physical space constraint of their monitor , as if they were sitting at a huge screen . |
| 17 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 18 | I did n't use a little animal every two seconds ; they were expended at a few a week . |
| 19 | The two of them were sitting at a table in the open air . |
| 20 | Such changes occurred most commonly when women were initially booked to deliver at general practitioner hospitals : 40% of them were delivered at a consultant unit . |