Example sentences of "were [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 2 | ( Notice that this requires that each of the original companies were producing at an output below minimum efficient scale . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Initial responses were given at a meeting on 13 January . |
| 6 | A group of people were gathered at a mill two blocks away . |
| 7 | They varied between 20–60 hectares in size , were situated at an elevation of around 300m , and were in shallow stony soils . |
| 8 | Well , those animals that did survive were treated at a number of animal shelters . |
| 9 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 10 | Colombian-born Lieutenant Roberto Paz , was unarmed when he and other marines in civilian clothes were stopped at a roadblock . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They were part of a group of students returning from Stratford to London where they were registered at a college on Picadilly . |
| 13 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 14 | The findings of a recent mission to Japan to study developments in neural computing and parallel processing were reported at a meeting held at the Café Royal on the 4th December . |
| 15 | Rapid changes in higher education were forecast at a meeting of Darlington Soroptimists . |
| 16 | These roles were pursued at a time when the ideas , language , and values underpinning social care were changing rapidly and when resource constraints were worsening . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's very good of you to include me , ’ she said when she , Iris and Jack were installed at a table , sipping apéritifs and making a show of studying the menu . |
| 19 | Rollers were wound at an angle , spiralling hair around the curlers to give a firm pincurled result . |
| 20 | A big loss was suffered on the course in 1975 when 40 elm trees were felled at a cost of £1,400 owing to Dutch Elm Disease . |
| 21 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 22 | Plants collected were exhibited at a dinner in July to Members and their guests , and a general discussion followed a talk by the Demonstrator . |
| 23 | The third-floor blaze in Brighton , East Sussex , started just after 2am when flames were seen at a window . |
| 24 | After an uncomfortable night tossing about on board the steamer , on arrival Mrs Gould , her maid Mary , and the baby were lodged at an inn in Newcastle , while Gould took the opportunity of visiting some of the islands in the estuary . |
| 25 | Most of the English statements were written at a level of generality that allows for extremely wide interpretation . |
| 26 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 27 | Further details of the junta 's plans were revealed at a press conference given by Gen. Sunthorn on Feb. 25 . |
| 28 | PLANS for a major new initiative to help reconstruct the economy of Surrey , Sussex and Kent were revealed at a meeting of civic and business leaders . |
| 29 | The figures were revealed at a conference in Edinburgh , highlighting the problems facing young people in care . |
| 30 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |