Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults were initially more reluctant to discuss their feelings , but may have felt inhibited by the presence of healthcare professionals ; many parents were observed swapping addresses at the end of the meeting . |
| 2 | He claimed that the government was forcing Petrobrás to run at a loss in order to keep petrol prices and thus inflation down . |
| 3 | Thame — an erstwhile distributor of Motorola Computer Systems boxes , was showing Auspex NetServers at the UK Computer Management Group exhibition in Brighton last week , along with the new Sparc-based Epoch-2 data storage servers from Epoch Systems Inc . |
| 4 | Clement decided that he preferred engineering , and by 1805 was making power looms at a nearby factory . |
| 5 | With respect to the issue of subsidiarity , he emphasised that the British view of subsidiarity was to have decisions taken at the lowest effective level of authority . |
| 6 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |