Example sentences of "were [adj] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the world 's telecoms deregulatory efforts were half-hearted at most . |
| 2 | Telling him you were pregnant at that point in time was the height of selfishness , ’ he went on . |
| 3 | Er which were normal at that time . |
| 4 | Admittedly , there is a larger number of fourth century pavements ( differential preservation may be an important factor here ) : before the 1960's , but for those from Wheeler 's excavation at Verulamium , few pre-fourth century pavements were datable at all . |
| 5 | That changes were possible at all even in this most sacred area of ritual meant that changes were possible elsewhere . |
| 6 | Differences of opinion on nomenclature were rife at this time . |
| 7 | Most socialists , if they were interested at all , took their foreign policy from middle-class radicals , and pacifist politics continued to be dominated by essentially Cobdenite assumptions about the relationship between capitalism and peace . |
| 8 | There were other variations too : some ships had low prows and high sterns , whilst others were high at both ends . |
| 9 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 10 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 11 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 12 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
| 13 | Mr Sutherland said the waters were dangerous at this time of year and contained almost no haddock . |
| 14 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
| 15 | The Catholics were euphoric at this outcome : |
| 16 | The transmission at sites outside the brain by acetylcholine or by noradrenaline was established unequivocally ( see Chapters 6 and 12 ) and later it was established that both these substances were present at many sites inside the brain and spinal cord . |
| 17 | Leaves , if they were present at all , were humble scales or spine-like projections . |
| 18 | They were present at all subsequent coronations until that of King Charles II at Scone on Ne'er Day 1651 — the last coronation at Scone and the last in Scotland . |
| 19 | We know from the appearances that you were present at that enquiry . |
| 20 | All Nottinghamshire Conservative Members were present at that debate , and they voted against the Bill . |
| 21 | Neither Picasso nor Braque , the true creators of the movement , were present at any of these gatherings . |
| 22 | But , as Schopf asks , if such diverse communities were present at this early date , why did their members remain essentially unchanged for so long ? |
| 23 | industrial and human relations were better at both extremes of the scale than in large-batch and mass production companies , possibly owing to heavier pressure on all individuals in this type of organisation ; and |
| 24 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 25 | There 's still folk around here will tell you they never were married at all , but it 's a lie : my Aunt Florrie was char at Registry Office , and she saw them there . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps they were all at this well-attended W.I. meeting , where not only hats , but coats and fur stoles seems to have been the thing . |
| 27 | We were astounded at this wealth . |
| 28 | Whilst there were many at this level of farming there were also those who were struggling to get going . |
| 29 | Contacts with the Cuban embassy were good at that time , with the revolution just six years old . |
| 30 | Lines angles and intersections , you were good at that , you were using your compass and doing things okay , and geometry of the circle , I , as I say tend tend to leave that with all the |