Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] at the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were married at the Catholic Church , Sheerness . |
| 9 | We flunkeys were all at the front door to receive the family from the airfield . |
| 10 | Only a handful of people were in the pub and they were all at the other end . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Three concrete blocks were cemented to the patio stones at the rear of the new pond as a base for this filter — it was important that these were all at the same level . |
| 13 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 14 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Officials at the Honduran Forestry Development Corporation were angry at the planned disruption of the area which the government has designated forest reserve . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | By the end of her reign there are signs that some lawyers were concerned at the free use of proclamations . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Five beds were available at the intensive care unit throughout both of the months named . |
| 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 | This complex interaction is not large and is difficult to interpret , more important is the fact that no other interactions or main effects were significant at the 0.05 level . |
| 25 | At Westminster MPs were astonished at the apparent suicide of a seemingly outgoing colleague with no problems . |
| 26 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |
| 27 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
| 28 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 29 | But he was friendly at the next GP and apologised . ’ |
| 30 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |