Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 2 | Wooden platforms or stages were erected at different levels , so that men working on the various portions of the vehicle were facilitated in their task . |
| 3 | When he was on the field , chairs were placed at regular intervals along each touchline so that when he made a break on the wing , he had plenty of opportunity to rest before continuing his blistering run . |
| 4 | Additionally , hogsheads were placed at various points , around which the bullards could manoeuvre and George Burton claims that ‘ It is notorious that the Stamford Bullards were amongst the most courageous men to be found in the country . ’ |
| 5 | Feeders ( 5cm vertical tubes on a movable base ) were placed at various locations within the inner 49 pixel grid ( 20cmx20cm each , shaded grey ) and analyses of time spent per pixel were conducted throughout the outer 121 pixel grid ( white ) . |
| 6 | To this a variety of solutions were given at different times . |
| 7 | Aliquots of the cultures were withdrawn at different time intervals in order to determine the cell counts . |
| 8 | A potentially embarrassing incident at last weekend 's Steam Gala on the Llangollen Railway , turned into a triumph for the volunteer P-Way and operational staff who , by chance , were gathered at Glyndyfrdwy station writes COLIN JAMES . |
| 9 | The manual operation of broadcasting a recognition signal to the platforms in orbit around Tarvaras had been duplicated simultaneously by four automatic sending stations which were situated at various points along the Simonova 's mainframe . |
| 10 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 11 | The various regional associations which were formed at various times in Eastern and Western Europe , in Africa , in the Middle East or in Latin America , rested either upon the predominance of one nation state over others in the region , or upon a limited agreement about a framework within which national economic interests could be more effectively pursued ; and they all showed themselves largely incapable of controlling the vigorous expression of such interests in periods of crisis . |
| 12 | As long as there was a substantial number of people in each group , the groups would start the experiment having the same political preferences on average , since the groups were formed at random . |
| 13 | The West Germans were becoming increasingly eager to cultivate relations across the Iron Curtain , and both sides were hinting at new arms talks . |
| 14 | Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning . |
| 15 | They were attacked at random by hundreds of armed men . |
| 16 | Deep , small holes were drilled at appropriate points in the leaf and stem decoration . |
| 17 | Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line . |
| 18 | Four derelict PBYs were located at Orange County Airport in Southern California where they had been abandoned after a Navy surplus sale . |
| 19 | The Execution Dock , Wapping , east London , where , until the eighteenth century , pirates were hanged at low-water mark and their bodies left dangling in chains until three tides had flowed over them . |
| 20 | In contrast , the women who were booked at general practitioner units and delivered there had by far the lowest perinatal mortality rate ( 3.3/1000deliveries ) . |
| 21 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 22 | The properties had been left to the Church in the early eighteenth century and were let at moderate rents . |
| 23 | Over 3 million dwellings were let at net weekly rents of 50 pence or less , and of these nearly 1 million were only 25 pence or less ( White Paper , Rent Control : Statistical Information , Cmnd 17 , 1956 ) . |
| 24 | Just 15 of the new faces attended Oxbridge , half ( 57 ) were educated at other universities and a mere seven at those traditional breeding grounds , the polytechnics . |
| 25 | They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities . |
| 26 | Nearly three-quarters of these children were educated at special schools , often in special classes . |
| 27 | Of this number 262 , almost two thirds , were educated at public schools , 215 of them subsequently going on to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 28 | General Secretaries would then be obliged to satisfy the membership and could be put in a classic squeeze when they were approached at top level , even if supporting NoS was against their better judgement . |
| 29 | Similar modifications were included at Greek request to passages on the right to conscientious objection . |
| 30 | To examine the effects of PSL , SASP , and 5-ASA on ADCC activity as well as on natural and lymphokine activated killer activity , those drugs were added at various concentrations to the cultures in all three kinds of assays already described . |