Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 2 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 3 | The two joyriders were eventually convicted at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 4 | Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share . |
| 5 | Garrett , Bever and Fodor ( 1966 ) showed that clicks were perceptually localised at clause boundaries , and hence concluded that the clause is the main perceptual unit . |
| 6 | Cattle owned by the peasantry were easy to steal because they were rarely folded at night . |
| 7 | The entire fleet of Japanese aircraft were based at NAS Barbers Point , while the flyable American aircraft , such as the B–17s , were mostly kept at Wheeler Field . |
| 8 | There were some reports so confidential that even Jean might not see them ; they were better kept at home . |
| 9 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 10 | Numbers on the train were greatly reduced at Georgemas where those going to Wick had to dismount and wait for a connecting Sprinter . |
| 11 | In India and in the colonial environment generally the women of the ruling race were especially cosseted at stations . |
| 12 | In CD 's day railway signal-lights were normally kept at green , but changed to red when a train was actually in a station or about to enter it . |
| 13 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 14 | What it did do was confer material benefits , which were desperately needed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 15 | Prior to ninety one two when independent taxation came in banks and building societies were just taxed at source , as it is today . |
| 16 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 17 | The fact that the three girls who were already employed at Number 147 just giggled whenever I gave any instructions , only made the appointment more pressing . |
| 18 | On the basis of size of population , both Scotland and Wales were already overrepresented at Westminster . |
| 19 | In the darkness ( for obvious reasons , approach marches were usually made at night ) the columns trampled over the howling wounded that lay underfoot . |
| 20 | At St. Martin 's the Festivals were always celebrated at Evensong by a procession around the Church during the final hymn , when the four banners were carried . |
| 21 | Robert Darby , 25 , a youth leader known as The General , and Leslie Thomas , 26 , were yesterday convicted at Southwark Crown Court of permitting premises to be used for the control and supply of drugs in relation to acid house parties . |
| 22 | Shares in the company were yesterday suspended at 7.25p . |
| 23 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 24 | The boys , of course , were still living at home , Arthur working as a plumber 's apprentice and Ted and Sam still at school . |
| 25 | They are people who are old enough to go to war , and I think that there is a difficulty , you know , a major amoral difficulty or ethical difficulty in attempting to continue to treat young people as if they were still living at home and were not young adults but were really children . |
| 26 | As tournament organisers were getting out their calculators , spectators were still marvelling at Ivanisevic 's superb performance . |
| 27 | Suite and Primavera were both given at Witwatersrand University , Johannesburg , on 3 to 6 October 1945 ( six performances ) . |
| 28 | As his two sons , Edmund and Lenthall , were both killed at Steenkirk in 1692 he was , in the words of his epitaph ‘ Warcupporum ultimus ’ . |
| 29 | In the south-east , rich bands of flint nodules were extensively mined at sites in Wiltshire , Sussex and Norfolk — Grimes Graves being the most famous and accessible site today . |
| 30 | Both his drawings and the buildings show that he had , for the Elizabethan period , a capable grasp of the language of classical ornament ; he knew and used the works of Serlio , possibly of Palladio , and of the Flemish Mannerist Vredeman de Vries , whose designs were extensively adapted at Wollaton . |