Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 2 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 3 | Phosphorus concentrations were measured only at the four sites listed . |
| 4 | All virological parameters were determined centrally at the Rotterdam hepatitis laboratory . |
| 5 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |
| 6 | Lady Roscarrock glanced at her husband , whose eyes were directed firmly at the rush matting . |
| 7 | The courier was staring hard at the patch of carpet between his feet . |
| 8 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 9 | The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends . |
| 10 | Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth . |
| 11 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 12 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 13 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 14 | His legal training and knowledge of the workings of the Roman curia were put tirelessly at the service of the Crown . |
| 15 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 16 | The issue was discussed further at the May 12 meeting of the Joint Nuclear Control Commission ( JNCC ) which had been established in March [ see p. 38819 ] . |
| 17 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 18 | Mr Brunhead , who represented Thames Transit Limited stated that the City Council could just be proud of what it had done , for public transport , and he was aware that the city council was looking again at the balanced transport policy , and ways of making the city centre more viable for bus and for public transport . |
| 19 | Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour . |
| 20 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 21 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 22 | A NEW laser treatment which could help hundreds of Ulster people suffering from disfiguring birthmarks was unveiled today at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald . |
| 23 | It may be significant that Paul Black was involved heavily at the London end in the design of such schemes , but again not from the total viewpoint which in any case would probably be regarded as one of the weaknesses of the London development where there was less overview than obtained in Oxford . |
| 24 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 25 | Ranteallo was standing nearby at the front of the crowd , urging us on . |
| 26 | Mr Doyle 's body was brought ashore at the Pier Head on July 7 this year , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 27 | Each man in the picture was staring blankly at the photographer , a bar of soap in each hand as if caught in the act of some doubtful ritual . |
| 28 | ‘ But John calmed down and things were settled amicably at the end of the day , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 30 | The accounts of the parish officers were audited annually at the Easter Vestry Meeting . |