Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 3 | He was educated privately at a small school run by his father at Hardenhuish rectory , and latterly at Claverton Lodge School , Bath , run by his uncle Francis Kilvert [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 5 | The commendation reads : ‘ A difficult rescue was carried out at a high degree of risk to the crew . |
| 6 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 7 | The agreement at Smiths Industries , Cheltenham , ending a three-week strike at the plant was accepted overwhelmingly at a mass meeting yesterday . |
| 8 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 9 | Interest in recycling was stirred up at a free seminar organised by ICI 's plastics environmental affairs group . |
| 10 | The cholinergic agonist carbachol was infused intra-arterially at a final concentration of 0.1 µmol/l to maintain consistent motor activity . |
| 11 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 12 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 13 | He was speaking today at a Tory Reform Group fringe meeting in Bournemouth . |
| 14 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 15 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 16 | The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 . |
| 17 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 18 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 19 | Benny was staring intently at a large worm wriggling on the pile of damp earth . |
| 20 | The result was , however , that the most important change in Roman life was observed only at a superficial level . |
| 21 | It was standing up at a crazy angle out of a mass of ferns . |
| 22 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 23 | But with the industry in recession , and record sales dropping , the hitherto dependable cashflow was trickling down at an alarming rate . |
| 24 | Mr Blunkett said Mr Sackville , who is responsible for the capital 's ambulance service , wrote to the Labour MP Glenda Jackson on October 21 last year , claiming the CAD system was functioning correctly at a technical level . |
| 25 | A campaign to monitor the impact of government economic and social policies in West Belfast was launched today at a well-attended conference in the Whiterock College of Further Education . |
| 26 | ‘ The socialist order is in danger in Hungary because internal and external reactionary forces have launched a counter-offensive aimed at restoring capitalism , ’ warned the manifesto of the party 's ‘ Marxist Unity Platform ’ which was read out at a mass rally in a Budapest stadium . |
| 27 | A REGIME of terror at a hospital for the mentally handicapped was described yesterday at an industrial tribunal . |