Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] [conj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our supporters were vastly outnumbered but at least we could hear them . |
| 2 | Both houses were badly damaged and at the DSS offices some damage was caused to the door and surrounds of a porch . |
| 3 | This time potential risks were only coded if at least one subject from the other condition described the same information from the five second section of film . |
| 4 | Divisive questions like the Boer War were carefully avoided if at all possible . |
| 5 | They were also told that at 10 o'clock next morning she would be put on a plane back to India . |
| 6 | The Peruvian headquarters of IBM Corp were severely damaged and at least 17 people were injured after urban guerrillas of the Maoist Shining Path terrorist organisation detonated a powerful car bomb in front of the computer company 's offices in southeast Lima . |
| 7 | The bursts of intra-party democracy within the Labour Party , reflected in the cry that " Conference should decide " , were invariably condemned as at odds with the essentials of the British constitution and as offensive to the magic , unmediated link between parliamentary leaders and " their " supporters ( not controllers ) in the electorate at large . |
| 8 | The two girls were closely seeded and at times , the match was very closely fought . |
| 9 | At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control , we were ideally suited and at peace . |