Example sentences of "was [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 2 | No he was , he was right at the very beginning of the school |
| 3 | And , despite what many people say , it was nt while delivering the cross for Sniffers goal — it was right at the very end of 90mins … so noone came on for him when he injured his ELBOW . |
| 4 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 5 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 6 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 7 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 8 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 9 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 10 | Cable & Wireless said the transaction was only at a preliminary stage but the talks were taking place on the basis of Hong Kong Telecom 's average price last month . |
| 11 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |
| 12 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 13 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 14 | The entrance with its kiosk and museum was away at the far side , and not inhabited by night . |
| 15 | Secondly , engineering inspectors of AIB had been called upon to provide the engineering input to RAF boards of inquiry concerning accidents to military aircraft ever since the Branch was part of the old Air Ministry and consequently their expertise in jet aircraft investigating techniques was already at a high pitch before the first civil jet airliners entered service . |
| 16 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 17 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 18 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 19 | Sam was going to a tutorial college , where the staff tended to keep a close eye on their pupils , being moderately well paid to do so , while Camille was still at a local comprehensive where the teachers no longer cared much about anything . |
| 20 | But his exit from Ewood Park , barely ten minutes after the final whistle , was still at the stormy end of football management 's meteorological scale . |
| 21 | Peter was still at the front door , staring at him . |
| 22 | Support for the Greens may have shrunk but it was still at the same level as the Liberal Democrats ’ , the third party in Parliament , so perhaps Ms Cooke was unduly downcast . |
| 23 | This piece of advice might suggest that his grasp of the ‘ new psychology ’ was still at the rudimentary stage , since he speaks of a neurosis as if it were something avoidable . |
| 24 | Prince William was still at the crawling stage when they were invited to visit Australia by the government . |
| 25 | If the 1920s were a time of depression , the 1930s were not that much better , and morale amongst deaf people was still at an all-time low . |
| 26 | But he was still at an experimental stage of his thinking , and this enabled his political opportunism to come into play . |
| 27 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 28 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |
| 29 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 30 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |