Example sentences of "were [verb] at [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the liquid cooled in the veins , the crystals of tin ores were formed at greater depths than those of copper ores . |
| 2 | The file we were looking at earlier ? |
| 3 | Who knows how close the rest of Britain came to resembling Northern Ireland when plastic bullets were introduced at Broadwater Farm , but not used due to a decrease in the violence . |
| 4 | The new Council of Ministers included not only NSF members but also representatives from the National Liberal Party ( NLP ) , the Romanian Ecological Movement ( REM ) and the Agrarian Democratic Party ( ADP ) ; other parties were represented at lower government level . |
| 5 | The range was from less than 5p per 1000 gal ( 4546 litres ) to more than 15p per 1000 gal , often with a sliding scale , so that large users were charged at lower rates . |