Example sentences of "[verb] were at " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions . |
| 2 | Although units shipped were at a record high , last year 's drastic price-cutting was much in evidence . |
| 3 | The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will . |
| 4 | Almost the entire Street cast were at Granada 's studio to film the tribute which is to be screened later this year . |
| 5 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 6 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 7 | I think at any particular moment in the day we found that half or more of the unemployed people that we were able to interview were at home at that point in the day erm which is much , much more spent indoors and |
| 8 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 9 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 10 | Various attempts were made to increase the sales and advertising revenue of the two party papers , though the measures taken were at best mere palliatives . |
| 11 | Most of them involved ‘ killings committed impulsively with whatever means were at hand ’ , usually by ‘ men in their 60s or 70s [ who ] had reached breaking point under the continuing strain of looking after wives with severe mental or physical illness ’ . |
| 12 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 13 | However , throughout 1943–87 men who had never married were at increased risk of anal cancer compared with colon or stomach cancer , Previous studies have reported an association between men who had never married and anal cancer and argued that these findings reflected an association with male homosexuality . |