Example sentences of "it [was/were] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liquid products for manual use : This is calculated by standardising arithmetically the price to achieve a true cost which represents the price the product would be if it were at a standard concentration of 30 per cent . |
| 2 | My problem , therefore , would perhaps appear to lie with my speakers , but the G-K cost a fortune so I would be surprised if it were at fault . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 4 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |
| 5 | I beg your pardon I beg your pardon twelve , these two things were separate you know one could be added to the other in looking an as it were at the total employment requirement . |
| 6 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
| 7 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 8 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 9 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 10 | Peter does n't ’ And it was at this stage that someone else said , ‘ But Peter would n't like it , ’ and some little woman , who I 'd thought until that moment was a nun , said , ‘ Oh , fuck Big Petie . ’ |
| 11 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 12 | Marx argued throughout Capital that although slaves might be more at the mercy of the whims and fancies of their owners than wage workers , it was at least in the interest of the owner to ensure the minimum welfare of his slaves , since they were his property . |
| 13 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 14 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
| 15 | I could n't see who it was at first , then I realised it was my husband . |
| 16 | There 's also an exhibition and 20s-style Picture Palace at Armley Mills on the early history of the movies because it was at nearby Leeds Bridge , in 1888 , that the first moving images were made . |
| 17 | Chesterton , always a favourite author , was a Christian ; it was at this period that Lewis read The Everlasting Man , and it made a profound impression on him . |
| 18 | It was at this point that Tolkien reiterated the argument already made familiar to Lewis by Barfield . |
| 19 | But it was at Gainsborough Studios , where production head Maurice Ostrer believed in making films that offered the audience ‘ good themes and good laughs ’ that filmmakers produced the most distinctive melodramas of this period , entertainments created at the opposite extreme to the realist dramas . |
| 20 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 21 | It was at this point that police initially peacefully and totally unsuccessfully , sought to persuade the protesters to disperse . |
| 22 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
| 23 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 24 | ‘ When I discovered I was pregnant , it was at a time when I was very manic about the group , I felt it was my mission . |
| 25 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 26 | It was at this time that ‘ Space Oddity ’ was released , a period in David 's life that brought both triumph and tragedy . |
| 27 | It was at this point that David met Mary Finnigan , a journalist living in Beckenham , for the first time . |
| 28 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 29 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 30 | It was at that time , in fact , that he met Andy Warhol . |