Example sentences of "he [was/were] at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These activities led in turn to further meetings at Lambeth Palace in January and March 1938 , to consider the formation of a British section of the World Council of Churches ; in September , he was at a meeting of the Council on the Christian Faith and the Common Life . |
| 2 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 3 | But by August 30 , ranked a Squadron Leader , he was at the controls of a Hurricane fighter facing 100 enemy aircraft along with just two other planes . |
| 4 | In January 1283 he was at the siege of the castle of Dolwyddelan , whose nodal position made its capture crucial to the English conquest of Snowdonia . |
| 5 | Gyalpo , a Buddhist monk in his 20s from the Drepung monastery in Lhasa , was killed by police forces in what appears to be an extra-judicial execution , when he was at the head of a peaceful demonstration in support of Tibetan independence on 10 December 1988 . |
| 6 | But you said he was at the bottom of the stairs I was at the top and you were in his office |
| 7 | He was at the centre of the controversy that led to the Unix Wars and the creation of the Open Software Foundation while on secondment to AT&T Co from Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 8 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 9 | Marius Steen was in London certainly on the Saturday night , because he was at the Sex of One … party . |
| 10 | The seeds of a dramatic career were first sown while he was at the University of Indiana studying music . |
| 11 | Glass had first started writing music seriously when he was at the University of Chicago , although he had been playing the flute since he was eight . |
| 12 | Prior to Hoylake he was at the church of St Helen Witton at Northwich . |
| 13 | He was at the church of St Helen Witton at Northwich before moving to Hoylake . |
| 14 | It was n't Brian 's fault , he could n't really help the fact that he did n't fit in , that he looked , well … strange , or that he was at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out . |
| 15 | He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester . |
| 16 | Socially , he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth . |
| 17 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 18 | They said an army sniper aimed a rifle with a telescopic sight at Jihad Mustafa Ali Sadek , 22 , and shot him in the back while he was at the top of his mosque 's minaret . |
| 19 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 20 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 21 | By the 1860's , when he was at the height of his fame , tragedy struck as he took increasingly to drink . |
| 22 | By 1252 he was at the height of his power and high in royal esteem . |
| 23 | There he was at the side of the stage , looking pretty , inconsequentially strumming his guitar . |
| 24 | Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought . |
| 25 | Uncle Bill as he was at the age of twenty-eight over seventy years ago . |
| 26 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 27 | Anyone who knew Niki knew , in spite of his denials , that he was at the end of his rope . |
| 28 | He was at the end of the village . |
| 29 | He was at the end of his patience when a message came from Merymose . |
| 30 | In fact when Boy first came to us he was at the point of exhaustion . |