Example sentences of "was at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I was at Hibs , I had frequently watched Rangers on television and noticed Chris Woods having to make only a couple of saves per game . |
| 2 | Like the less diplomatically suave authority , Theodore Haecker , whom Eliot was at times glad to call on , the author of Four Quartets and editor of The Criterion required us to take Virgil as , above all , the author of the Fourth Eclogue , the pagan poet who prophesied Christianity , whose vision of human history must accordingly be seen as completed and vindicated by The Divine Comedy . |
| 3 | Jordan considered what an unselfconscious poseur Cabochon was at times . |
| 4 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 5 | It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators . |
| 6 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 7 | The dolls became amusing , and at times touching , symbols of childhood moods , and although the treatment was at times sentimental it also had a genuine gaiety . |
| 8 | It was at times like this that I felt very small in the landscape . |
| 9 | It was at times like this that my physical and emotional stamina dangerously evaporated ; nurturing was essential . |
| 10 | It was noted that , in theory , any needs could be met by co-operative and/or internal training , particularly as the context of co-operation encompasses a wide range of possible co-operative relationships , so that the boundary between an ‘ internal ’ and an ‘ external ’ programme was at times very indistinct . |
| 11 | The weather in Malaysia was at times a wall of rain , forcing us to seek permission to land at Alor Setar . |
| 12 | It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out . |
| 13 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 14 | Jenny Marx 's life was at times appallingly wretched and difficult . |
| 15 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 16 | To the east lay border regions — Berry and Auvergne — where even the Duke 's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful . |
| 17 | Alix was mousy , square-faced , healthy of complexion , and , even then , extraordinarily pleasant of expression , with a pleasantness that was at times radiant , and almost always irrefutable : she was wearing , as girls who had them did for their Oxbridge interviews in those days , a two-piece middle-aged suit of an oatmeal mix , with square shoulders and a straight skirt . |
| 18 | At the same time , under the general conditions of this best-known of all forms of patronage , certain less specific forms of professional organization in the arts were often present , at a different stage : evidently in the master and apprentice system which was at times similar to that in a wider area of skills and crafts ( see pages 58ff below ) . |
| 19 | His journals in particular constitute a moving memorial to a young man of integrity and moral courage , whose determination not to succumb to pain and humiliation was at times heroic . |
| 20 | He was at times obsessed by his feelings for women . |
| 21 | The 27-year-old North-East man was at times impatient and ragged and displayed the expected ring rust from the ten-month lay-off he had had before the fight . |
| 22 | His will was at times stronger than hers — and that was something new . |
| 23 | Chefs are not usually noted for their even-temper and calmess , however , and Bohringer 's sleepy-eyed nature was at odds with this . |
| 24 | By early 1989 the Prime Minister was at odds with several colleagues , not only Nigel Lawson with whom she quarrelled incessantly , but also with Sir Geoffrey Howe whose sympathy for European monetary union and generally benign approach to foreign affairs came increasingly to jar with her . |
| 25 | The Christian Democrats had a colourless premier , who was at odds with a too pushy local party chairman . |
| 26 | The alleged statement was never submitted to the court because ‘ it was at odds with the police investigation ’ . |
| 27 | Gedge felt Charman 's personality was at odds with the rest of the band and Charman regularly found himself isolated during discussions . |
| 28 | Although they enjoyed the session provided , it was at odds with their expectations . |
| 29 | Frisby points out that Scheler 's phenomenology was at odds with Husserlian phenomenology in its dualism of spirit and drives ( Frisby 1983 : 31 ) and that there is little ‘ sociology ’ , in the sense of an explanation in terms of social formation or social structure , in his sociology of knowledge ( Frisby 1983 : 33 ) . |
| 30 | Portugal was ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship , and so was at odds with the principles of liberal democracy that were deeply embedded in the life of the other six . |