Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , you were the chap at the Abbey . ’
2 And there were a tap at the door and the hand come out
3 GRAYSHOTT parents and teachers were a hit at the village hall when they staged Cinderella , a pantomime with a difference !
4 It was held that they could , as it was the tape itself which was the evidence at the trial ( rather than .
5 However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off .
6 He was the coolness at the centre of the fire and his look purged and freed her .
7 The question , therefore , is still further narrowed to this point : Was the marriage at the testator 's request ?
8 Old hands at the Tretyakov remember that Yeltsin examined the plan for restoration and construction work at the Gallery back when he was the minister at the USSR Gosstroy ( State Construction Department ) .
9 Was the minister at the house ?
10 The arrangement is dedicated to Pascal 's mother and father and there is one further happy family connection : Feuillard , Paul 's first important cello teacher , was the cellist at the Trio 's première .
11 It was Alastair Mackay lived here , that was the gardener at the House .
12 Derby County four was the scoreline at the County Ground … here 's what went wrong
13 Yes ( it was the phone at the Pizza Hut , Tottenham Court Road ) .
14 The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known .
15 The establishment of the Central American Parliament ( Parlacén ) [ see p. 38528 ] was welcomed , as was the signing at the summit of the Protocol of Reforms to the Organization of Central American States ( ODECA ) Charter and the establishment of the System for Central American Integration to ensure that decisions reached at presidential meetings were implemented .
16 The principal argument for Soviet involvement was the apprehension at the scale of casualties envisaged in an invasion of the Japanese home islands .
17 Ken said , ‘ Yeah , I remember that too , but what really got me going was the bit at the end :
18 That all changed when Athens threatened to absorb Megara and Aigina — which was the position at the end of the 460s : Athens subjected Aigina in 458/7 .
19 Table 17.1 shows how this was the case at the end of July 1992 .
20 Indeed , many observers would argue that given the growth of cabinet government , the potential for government to seek and receive such powers is significantly greater now than was the case at the time when Dicey was writing .
21 This was the case at The Belfy near Leeds which , last year , won a Greenleaf Housing Award for conservation .
22 This was the case at the dedication of the temple in Solomon 's day when simply we read : ‘ the glory of the LORD filled the temple . ’
23 Charlie was an employee like everyone else , but in the absence of the owners he was the man at the top … all the responsibility , almost none of the rakeoff .
24 ‘ It was the man at the house the day Chris was buried . ’
25 Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem .
26 According to the MRE , that is right and oaf is a powerful though mysterious germicide , thought to be , perhaps , a combination of ozone and olefins that was the conjecture at the time of my notes , any way .
27 Maybe it was the opposite at the time .
28 The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ .
29 There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass .
30 Financier and former model die in mystery explosion was the headline at the time — and the emphasis of course was on the ‘ former model ’ .
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