Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen patients ( 15 men ; three women ) who had required intensive support in hospital before cardiac transplantation and were alive at short term follow up . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The seven patients who did not receive a transplant died in hospital , but 18 of 20 patients who survived to hospital discharge after transplantation were alive at short term follow up ( mean ( range ) 19.4 ( 10–33 ) months ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of patients in group A , six ( 50% ) had detectable antibody with a perinuclear pattern on immunofluorescent staining compared with three of 19 ( 16% ) in group B. All patients in group A were symptomatic at initial presentation ( 11 patients hadright upper quadrant pain , eight had cholangitis , two had pruritus , and two had symptoms related to hepatic decompensation ) . |
| 6 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 7 | This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line . |
| 8 | TCR C β2 transcripts were present at normal levels in TCR -α mutant mice , but were absent in TCR- β mutant mice , as the TCR C β2 gene segment is included in the 15-kb deletion . |
| 9 | Only six weeks after their first date , proposed and they were married at nearby Bridgenorth in October followed by a honeymoon in Singapore and Penang . |
| 10 | Such responses help to make the important point that just because mass media were good at spreading news and information , those were not the only purposes they served . |
| 11 | Other poor dealers were kept on in dealing jobs , because they were good at answering telephone inquiries , or at dealing on government privatisations . |
| 12 | Apparently the men were angry at foreign traders coming to Britain . |
| 13 | However , clarifying which churches were important at particular dates is much more problematical . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard you were busy at other things . |
| 15 | Of the seven judges who heard the appeal , four thought it necessary to consider whether the taxes paid were recoverable at common law . |
| 16 | Particular backdrops were fashionable at different times ( and the furniture or background in an old photograph may tell us more about tastes and fashions in photographers ' studios than it does about furniture in homes ) . |
| 17 | I understood how Mother felt when she knew she was pregnant at long last . |
| 18 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 19 | I could do the English and the intelligence tests , but I was hopeless at mental arithmetic : for some reason my mind would go blank whenever I tried to visualise numbers instead of seeing them written down . |
| 20 | The figure had snapped in two at the waist , and was prone at right angles to itself . |
| 21 | A MIDWIFE who delivered 42 babies and was present at other births was found to be HIV positive , a health chief confirmed yesterday . |
| 22 | By command of The Queen , the Lord Reay ( Lord in Waiting ) was present at Royal Air Force Northolt this afternoon upon the departure of The Duke of Gloucester for Portugal and bade farewell to His Royal Highness on behalf of Her Majesty . |
| 23 | I was good at English history , sport |
| 24 | She was good at blocking things out . |
| 25 | On Sept. 30 Radio ELBC ( Monrovia ) said that the interim government was concerned at persistent reports of massacres by the NPFL of hundreds of civilians in the north-west . |
| 26 | At least I was able at future lectures to raise a laugh by pointing out that by printing chapter 15 first the Report provided an example of the pervasive influence of post-structuralism . |
| 27 | They resented the way in which the Chancellor interfered — in effect though not in theory — with their judgements , by prohibiting the man who was successful at Common Law from putting them into force . |
| 28 | Before the mid-Fifties , an attendance of 70,000 was common at leading clubs . |
| 29 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 30 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |