Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why there is so much stress in Luke 's account of the life of Jesus that his deeds and words were at the inspiration of the Spirit ( Luke 4:1,14 ; 10:21 ; 23:46 , etc . ) . |
| 2 | The stables were at the back of a courtyard and there was a crowd outside the door . |
| 3 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 4 | During the noisy thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations , when Deng Xiaoping and his reform programme were at the peak of their popularity , few voices of dissent could be heard . |
| 5 | The exclusion of certain clergy is less easy to justify ( a relic of the time when religious disputes were at the heart of national affairs ) , as is the exclusion of 18- to 20-year-olds : when the voting age was lowered in 1969 , the age of eligibility for candidature was not . |
| 6 | Manager Alan Murray , assistant manager Eddie Kyle and McAndrew were at the Northern League club at the same time . |
| 7 | I planted the polystyrene marker , scattered some flake maize , sweetcorn and broken lobs around it , then headed back to shore where my two rods were at the ready for casting out . |
| 8 | Paramedics were at the scene in four minutes of the emergency call and took over from officers who had been trying to stem the flow of blood . |
| 9 | The books were at the auditors and I did n't want to hold up the minutes and , as you 'd all mostly seen them anyway , I felt that perhaps I could let them go . |
| 10 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 11 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 12 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 13 | Second , Jones ' experiment was at the stage where its results were moving forward the fastest . |
| 14 | The motion-work was at the very apogee of clockmaking technology and the case-work enjoyed a world wide reputation for quality of design and good taste , all at very competitive pricing . |
| 15 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 16 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 17 | Her bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 18 | Sarah 's bedroom was at the other end of the landing , next to her brother 's . |
| 19 | Not less important , Kunaev was at the centre of an elaborate network of patronage and corruption which was clearly threatened by the imposition of an ethnic and political outsider . |
| 20 | Barr was at the CIA from 1973 to 1977 when Bush himself was director , and served on the White House domestic policy staff when Bush was Vice-President . |
| 21 | Nokia was at the Imagination Gallery off Tottenham Court Road . |
| 22 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 23 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 24 | ACTOR John Travolta was at the centre of a mid-air mystery last night . |
| 25 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 26 | Richard Barnett was at the finishing line . |
| 27 | Justin Pink was at the M4 junction before he remembered that he had forgotten to tell Debbie that it was a black-tie job at the Simpsons ' . |
| 28 | ’ Gharr was at the spaceport when I landed , and he stopped me tight away . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |
| 30 | His official car was at the kerb . |