Example sentences of "were [adv] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 2 | Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour . |
| 3 | His most effective performance — except that there were not at that stage a great many people who were able to listen — was his broadcast . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that the commander of one region , extending from Jerusalem to the coast , is named as John the Essene — another indication that the Essenes were not at all pacifist . |
| 5 | Aggregating Dolgikh 's figures , we can arrive at the approximate numbers for the peoples of Siberia in the seventeenth century ( including some 69,000 people of the Altai-Sayan and the far East who were not at this time Russian subjects ) as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 6 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |
| 7 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 8 | Great Britain and Germany were only alike in one respect ; they were both at that time contented powers . |
| 9 | The three defendants were also at this morning 's viewing . |
| 10 | Of course native Siberians sometimes fought among themselves , just as the various national and religious communities of Europe were often at each other 's throats . |
| 11 | He and Pilger were now at each other 's throats , with the showdown already on the horizon — the dummy edition of Sunday 7 December . |
| 12 | He resolved to push on , despite the fact that Ruzski and Brusilov , though advancing tardily , were now at most 48km/30mls from severing the northern Austrian armies from their line of retreat and Plehve had succeeded in extricating his army from encirclement . |
| 13 | From the 520's onwards , however , the Merovingians were regularly at each other 's throats ; Theuderic I attempted to murder his half-brother Chlothar I ; Chlothar and Childebert I did kill the sons of Chlodomer ; Childebert and Theuderic 's son Theudebert I almost fought against Chlothar , but a storm miraculously prevented a battle taking place . |
| 14 | So can you think of any er brochures or any companies which were around at that time to take advantage ? |
| 15 | How many children were there at each period ? |