Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [conj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 2 | They were regarded as at best degenerate and self-indulgent , and at worst as vicious . |
| 3 | At 49 all the curtains were drawn and at 51 Mrs Archer had left the front door open , perhaps in the hope that Mr Archer would return . |
| 4 | A few hundred metres were overrun but at heavy cost in life . |
| 5 | High inflation in 1946 heralded a strike wave of unprecedented proportions : over 4.5 million workers went on strike and more working days were lost than at any time since 1927 ( Wallace et al. , 1988:8 ) . |