Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] be at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores . |
| 2 | These criteria were open to interpretation , but meant that a woman could get an abortion if either her physical or mental health were deemed to be at risk . |
| 3 | Clearly the existence of this sub-committee indicates many other , unminuted , meetings had taken place , and even the architect and contractor already appear to have been briefed , for they were reported to be at work , although the references in the minutes to their activities are unhelpful in pin-pointing what stage they were at . |
| 4 | None of them was seen as capable of safely preparing a meal ; seven would wander away from home if not watched ; four were substantially incontinent ; five were thought to be at risk with gas or fires ; six were physically frail or had mobility difficulties . |
| 5 | I had no idea how long we were going to be at Lille , or whether I stood any chance of being accepted by the Legion at all . |
| 6 | IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were scheduled to be at Wabi 's unveiling as licensees but turned into no-shows . |
| 7 | IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were scheduled to be at Wabi 's unveiling as licensees but turned into no-shows . |
| 8 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 9 | Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the health authority said only eight mothers were believed to be at risk of infection and not all of them had asked for an AIDS test . |