Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teacher : If you were right at the top of the tower would the people down below you look like ? |
| 2 | The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together . |
| 3 | However , the overall left-right balance within the Folketing remained virtually unaltered since the gains by the SD were mostly at the expense of the Socialist People 's Party ( SF ) on the left , and the losses of the coalition parties were balanced by gains of 4.0 per cent and seven seats by the Liberals ( Venstre — Lib . ) . |
| 4 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 5 | Stool soiling was difficult to assess , many children were not at an age to be toilet trained . |
| 6 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 7 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 8 | In the period he covered , Schweitzer distinguished three broad stages , in which three distinct issues were successively at the centre of discussion . |
| 9 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 10 | The walk-in is easy and we were soon at the foot of the icefall . |
| 11 | The changes were largely at the expense of moorland , heath and rough pasture . |
| 12 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 13 | The Asiz were already at the scene of the accident , and the arrival of the company 's interpreter did much to help communication between the Asiz , the local fire brigade and the British Sergeant . |
| 14 | Changes in the scale of business organisation were not matched by the adoption of modern methods of organisation and management , even though such claims were usually at the centre of the public case for a merger [ Channon , 1973 ; Meeks , 1977 ] . |
| 15 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |
| 16 | Closet federal Europeans earlier maintained that the EC was merely a gigantic free trade area ; now they boldly affirm that political and monetary union were always at the heart of the treaty of Rome . |
| 17 | His performances were ever at the service of the text , and invariably characters were created . |
| 18 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 19 | He said a clear pathway to sustainable development had been mapped out but they were still at the start of the journey . |
| 20 | David and Greg were still at the front of the plane , so , beckoning to the white-haired man , she said , ‘ Would you please come here and keep up pressure on this man 's leg ? |
| 21 | It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform . |
| 22 | The court heard they were both at the end of their tether . |
| 23 | and Mrs whose both numbers were nearly at the end of them anyway , with , they 'll all be back again in a , another week 's time |
| 24 | You were nearly at the end of the tape as well were n't you ? |
| 25 | " I wish you were really at the bottom of Foxton Mire , or burning in the fires of Hell . |
| 26 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 27 | Yanto lay back and reflected with satisfaction that they were now at the end of April , and there would be no big tides worth talking about until August at the earliest . |
| 28 | Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life . |
| 29 | The trio — all of whom had at one time endured menial jobs in factories , Stock making gaskets , Aitken fizzy drinks and Waterman manufacturing telephone dials — were now at the helm of the 1980 ’ s most phenomenal Hit Factory . |
| 30 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |