Example sentences of "who [was/were] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the prize guys who were brilliant at football had disappeared and I was left with the swots . ’ |
| 2 | to Jim Loughran and Bessie Embleton who were married at the Priory yesterday . |
| 3 | Of those councillors who were twin-tracking at the time of the Widdicombe Committee , 58 per cent were teachers or lecturers , 12 per cent were manual workers , 16 per cent were in professional jobs ( social workers , planners and so on and 14 per cent were administrators ( Widdicombe Research , Vol. iii:34 ) . |
| 4 | In Masterson v. Holden for example , it was not shown against the homosexual couple in Oxford Street that they were actually aware of the presence of bystanders who were incensed at what the defendants were doing , even though they had every reason to be so aware . |
| 5 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 6 | The results showed clearly that children who were good at categorising sounds were better at reading and spelling regardless of their IQ . |
| 7 | Successful candidates were those who were good at selling themselves personally to the voters . |
| 8 | According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version . |
| 9 | Men from Wadenhoe who were present at the next Northamptonshire Forest Eyre in 1255 were committed to prison , and the whole township was adjudged to be ‘ in grievous mercy ’ . |
| 10 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 11 | The veterans have become increasingly alarmed at the incidence of illness — especially cancers amongst the 20,000 who were present at the tests . |
| 12 | Those of you who were present at the AGM will be aware that we have been told by the GAP that the Society 's grant will be drastically reduced during the next few years and will cease after 1991 . |
| 13 | Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 14 | It was a vague but important time in the cultural and social history of the western world , a good time for those who were in it and enjoying themselves , a bad time for those who were dismayed at ‘ young people today ’ . |
| 15 | He could pretend she was a good housewife , cook and mother to other men who were disgruntled at their wives , brilliant careers . |
| 16 | There would always be that fear that it a similar incident might happen and er and that er it was those who were asleep at the time who were unlucky enough not to survive . |
| 17 | Between 1680 and 1800 the proportion of brides who were pregnant at the time of their wedding grew from 15 to 35 per cent and the illegitimacy ratio rose from 1·5 to 5 per cent . |
| 18 | Within a very short time several of those who were disappointed at his election swung over to gratitude for his coming and enthusiasm for what he did to the faculty . |
| 19 | Of 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up ( mean ( range ) 19.4 ( 10–33 ) months ) , 14 were still alive in 1992 ( 69 ( 61–83 ) months ) . |
| 20 | Of the 18 patients who were alive at the time of the 1988 report , 14 patients ( 11 men and three women , mean age 48 years ) were alive and well in 1992 at a mean ( range ) of 69 ( 61–83 ) months after transplantation . |
| 21 | Of the 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up , one has since died of coronary disease ; a second patient with coronary disease died of carcinoma of the lung ; and four further surviving patients have angiographic evidence of disease . |
| 22 | Of the four transplant candidates who were alive at the end of the study period , one with primary biliary cirrhosis had been referred and had received a liver transplant . |
| 23 | Of the 36 patients who were alive at the end of the study period and who were not considered for liver transplant , 26 had alcoholic liver disease ( 25 not abstinent , one abstinent , but with ischaemic heart disease ) and three had primary biliary cirrhosis ( in two of these advanced disease was manifest but one had additional psychiatric disease and one advanced cardiopulmonary disease ) . |
| 24 | Its just a pity there s not a better song to really get at the SCUM supporters , that does nt perhaps offend the older generation who WERE alive at the time . |
| 25 | Anne and John went immediately into town , and chose a three-stone diamond engagement ring , then went to see John 's mother and grandmother who were delighted at their news . |
| 26 | In addition , men in Sheffield who were short at birth , with a birth length of 20 inches ( 50.8 cm ) or less , also had higher cardiovascular death rates , though the difference was small . |
| 27 | Millwall just about deserved to take the spoils for their stirring second-half fightback and their performance must have cheered those fans who were furious at the £1m sale of forward Chris Armstrong to Crystal Palace . |
| 28 | Dr Ward has spoken of the potential effects on children who were unborn at the time of the incident . |
| 29 | Only the doubtful , those who were bad at living , needed to dissemble . |
| 30 | Although there was opposition to the Fiat-Alfa deal from some trade unionists who were concerned at the possible job losses caused by rationalisation after a merger , the Italian government was subjected to considerable political pressure of a nationalistic nature to support the Fiat bid — pressure similar to that which forced the British government to cancel the talks between Ford and Austin Rover — and eventually rejected the Ford overtures in favour of an ‘ all Italian solution ’ . |