Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buffy was a young man at the time , just setting out on the journey of life , if you know what I mean . |
| 2 | There was a strong sense at the time that the novel needed an agenda . |
| 3 | ‘ I understand … that it was a strong impulse at the time . |
| 4 | The son of an army bandmaster , he was a brilliant student at the United States Military Academy and at staff college , studying Chinese during a posting to Tientsin and in 1936 attending the Kriegsakademie in Berlin . |
| 5 | The distribution of climate-sensitive rocks indicates that there was a humid belt at the palaeolatitudes of southern Africa , and the palynofloral distribution indicates that it lay between palaeolatitudes 45° and 60°S ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 6 | The piper 's little girl was mounted on horseback , and dispatched to Brodick in quest of a lodging , and returned with the news that there was a spare room at the ‘ Boat-house . ’ |
| 7 | This was a typical day at the secluded hideout : 11am . |
| 8 | But before the other woman could respond , there was a confident rap at the door and it opened to admit Tom himself , looking harried and slightly out of breath . |
| 9 | Nice to see you … to see you nice … there was a rousing welcome at the Manor for Denis Smith … and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … everyone of course wished him well … everyone was pleased to see him except Bristol City … |
| 10 | Similarly , it is difficult to accept that hostility towards the Woodvilles from the rest of the political community was a major issue at the time of Edward 's death . |
| 11 | Similarly , it is difficult to accept that hostility towards the Woodvilles from the rest of the political community was a major issue at the time of Edward 's death . |
| 12 | There was a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1987 . |
| 13 | Launching a business with redundancy pay carried considerable financial risks , while training would only be of lasting value if there was a real job at the end of it . |
| 14 | He was considered a promising runner and there was a cross-country race at the end of the week . |
| 15 | His eyes met hers and there was a slight movement at the corners of his mouth . |
| 16 | There was a slight movement at the corners of his mouth . |
| 17 | The ‘ balance of Nature ’ was a shifting affair at the mercy of geographical factors that might change the physical environment or allow the invasion of rival species . |
| 18 | He resumed his tigerish pacing of the room , to stop only when there was a timid knock at the door , to call impatiently , ‘ Come in , come in . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Shahiduddin Postman was a familiar figure at the house : every morning after delivering our mail he would squat outside the front gate , smoking a bidi with the mali , a man to whom he bore a certain resemblance . |
| 20 | Last Boxing Day there was a similar incident at The Dell when Southampton played Coventry City . |
| 21 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 22 | There was a rival organization at the Tower Ballroom headed by Madame Pauline Rivers who had established a good reputation years before Tiller arrived . |
| 23 | , Thomas ( fl. 1292–1342 ) , was a working mason at the first building of St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace in 1292–3 and again in 1294 , His name indicates his birth in Witney , Oxfordshire , a manor of the bishop of Winchester , and this was significant for his career . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt there was a simple story at the heart of it , as well as the unusual content of the books , lent itself to the kind of melodramatic theatre I like . ’ |
| 25 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 26 | ‘ People might have though it was a stupid statement at the time — now they know I was right , ’ added Keegan who has named an unchanged team . |
| 27 | There was a dropped shot at the twelfth and another at the fifteenth which had her turning in 38 against the par of 37 . |
| 28 | Political reform was a central issue at the party 's ninth plenum of the sixth central committee in March 1990 [ see p. 37374 ] . |
| 29 | Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who introduced the disclosure requirement for house bids ( and other proposals that failed to win the support of his colleagues ) rejected the notion that the bill 's passage in the assembly was a hollow victory at the legislative eleventh hour . |
| 30 | David Sutherfield — who was a political counsellor at the US embassy in east Beirut until American diplomats were evacuated a month ago — arrived here over the weekend in the company of another American official for talks with Hussein Husseini , the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament . |