Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 2 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 3 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 4 | Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share . |
| 5 | Garrett , Bever and Fodor ( 1966 ) showed that clicks were perceptually localised at clause boundaries , and hence concluded that the clause is the main perceptual unit . |
| 6 | Cattle owned by the peasantry were easy to steal because they were rarely folded at night . |
| 7 | The entire fleet of Japanese aircraft were based at NAS Barbers Point , while the flyable American aircraft , such as the B–17s , were mostly kept at Wheeler Field . |
| 8 | There were some reports so confidential that even Jean might not see them ; they were better kept at home . |
| 9 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 10 | Numbers on the train were greatly reduced at Georgemas where those going to Wick had to dismount and wait for a connecting Sprinter . |
| 11 | In India and in the colonial environment generally the women of the ruling race were especially cosseted at stations . |
| 12 | In CD 's day railway signal-lights were normally kept at green , but changed to red when a train was actually in a station or about to enter it . |
| 13 | Many potential customers might feel more comfortable where agencies were not aiming at supervision of their minds . |
| 14 | The notices cluster along main streets and around candidates ' homes , and analysis suggests they were not posted at whim , but organised by the candidates . |
| 15 | As the tracks were not completed at West Croydon , such transfers proved rather difficult and cars had to be moved at night , using temporary rails to bridge the gap at the top of Tamworth Road . |
| 16 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 17 | Until far into this period there were many important States which were not represented at Constantinople ( Sweden had no resident minister there until 1734 , Prussia none till 1758 ) . |
| 18 | Bob McLean , convener of the home rule pressure group , Scottish Labour Action , stressed that proposals for the election of a Scottish party leader by the Scottish party conference were not targeted at Mr Clarke . |
| 19 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 20 | What it did do was confer material benefits , which were desperately needed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 21 | Prior to ninety one two when independent taxation came in banks and building societies were just taxed at source , as it is today . |
| 22 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 23 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 24 | On the basis of size of population , both Scotland and Wales were already overrepresented at Westminster . |
| 25 | In the darkness ( for obvious reasons , approach marches were usually made at night ) the columns trampled over the howling wounded that lay underfoot . |
| 26 | At St. Martin 's the Festivals were always celebrated at Evensong by a procession around the Church during the final hymn , when the four banners were carried . |
| 27 | Robert Darby , 25 , a youth leader known as The General , and Leslie Thomas , 26 , were yesterday convicted at Southwark Crown Court of permitting premises to be used for the control and supply of drugs in relation to acid house parties . |
| 28 | Shares in the company were yesterday suspended at 7.25p . |
| 29 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 30 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |