Example sentences of "were [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my boys first started school , we were aghast at the anti-English propaganda in the history books . |
| 2 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 3 | Certainly we were delighted at the public support we gained in Amsterdam , which really established as accepted fact that Clause 28 could not happen here . |
| 4 | She could tell by the insignia of his uniform that he did n't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall whose tents were visible at the far end of the park when she cycled up to the house . |
| 5 | These nations were incensed at the arrogant attitudes of unlicensed purse-seiners which plundered the tuna stocks within their 200-mile zones . |
| 6 | On the other side , the army high command — and the political party , the Kadets — were horrified at the Provisional Government 's flirtation with the disintegration of Russia . |
| 7 | He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources . |
| 8 | According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version . |
| 9 | They were married at the Catholic Church , Sheerness . |
| 10 | We flunkeys were all at the front door to receive the family from the airfield . |
| 11 | Only a handful of people were in the pub and they were all at the other end . |
| 12 | There were still celebrated Marxist historians , such as E. P. Thompson , Eric Hobsbawm , Christopher Hill , and John Saville , but they were all at the veteran stage , and there appeared to be no significant youthful successors , as their creed withered throughout eastern Europe . |
| 13 | The earl had only a small household with him at Huncote , but even so they were ten at the high table , and all male , since the countess and her women were left behind in Leicester . |
| 14 | Officials at the Honduran Forestry Development Corporation were angry at the planned disruption of the area which the government has designated forest reserve . |
| 15 | Although there was opposition to the Fiat-Alfa deal from some trade unionists who were concerned at the possible job losses caused by rationalisation after a merger , the Italian government was subjected to considerable political pressure of a nationalistic nature to support the Fiat bid — pressure similar to that which forced the British government to cancel the talks between Ford and Austin Rover — and eventually rejected the Ford overtures in favour of an ‘ all Italian solution ’ . |
| 16 | By the end of her reign there are signs that some lawyers were concerned at the free use of proclamations . |
| 17 | His architectural predilections were evident at the Royal Academy in 1850 , with compositions called Palladiana and the Works of Vignola and , at the time of his appointment as an assessor , he had just started his best known work , the Italianate Clothworkers ' Hall in the City of London ( 1856–60 ) . |
| 18 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were available at the intensive care unit at Sunderland general hospital in ( a ) December 1990 and ( b ) December 1991 . |
| 20 | Five beds were available at the intensive care unit throughout both of the months named . |
| 21 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 22 | The ladies who founded the Fur and Feather Group , soon to become the Society for the Protection of Birds ( and " Royal " by 1904 ) were outraged at the callous slaughter of thousands of herons , egrets and grebes ( usually at breeding colonies , so their young were left to starve ) for the use of decorative plumes in the fashion trade . |
| 23 | The band were amazed at the high degree of autonomy they secured in the contract . |
| 24 | Blacks were superior at the reactive activities . |
| 25 | Oil company officials said that they were excited at the new possibilities which opens up territory equivalent in size to the oil-producing state of Texas . |
| 26 | At Westminster MPs were astonished at the apparent suicide of a seemingly outgoing colleague with no problems . |
| 27 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 28 | should remain as published in the original documents , and were surprised at the proposed changes raised at the eleventh hour prior to a public enquiry , in September nineteen ninety two . |