Example sentences of "they were [vb pp] at [art] " 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 seated at the breakfast bar in the kitchen , and she pointed to a row of cereal boxes at the far side of the room . |
| 4 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 5 | They were treated at the Royal Liverpool Hospital for minor injuries . |
| 6 | In December , when 12 managers visited , they were collected at the airport and taken to Kilmarnock first of all , where Andrew Steel , Managing Director , conducted a tour of Douglas Reyburn 's yarn , spinning and dyeing operations . |
| 7 | What was interesting about the projects was that they were asked at the outset to establish their local objectives , and set criteria for success for themselves . |
| 8 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 9 | Well er we got we got the use of er er of rifles , you know , there were n't many , because they were wanted er they were wanted at the er front . |
| 10 | They were painted at the Royal Academy Schools when I was a student immediately before the closing of the Schools in 1940 . |
| 11 | They were part of a group of students returning from Stratford to London where they were registered at a college on Picadilly . |
| 12 | Menem delivered a speech over the remains before they were interred at the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires where Eva Perón was also buried . |
| 13 | In the United States , the Library of Congress has been classifying and cataloguing audio-visual materials for many years , so long as they were deposited at the Library for copyright purposes . |
| 14 | The reason they 're rich in oxygen is because they were formed at the polar regions , alright ? |
| 15 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 16 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 17 | They were halted at the outer guardhouse at the aforementioned trench , to identify themselves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 21 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 22 | The idea that there is some correct and timeless view , against which historical controversies can be judged , can prove an insensitive guide to the issues as they were perceived at the time . |
| 23 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 24 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 25 | You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’ |
| 26 | I tried to move my hands and they hurt , but I established that they were n't tied , they were taped at the wrists . |
| 27 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 28 | in Reid in response to counsel 's submission that a husband could only be guilty of kidnapping his wife if they were separated at the time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |