Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 2 | Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers . |
| 3 | Dr Nigel Paul , a Lancaster biologist now in the third year of a research programme funded by the Department of the Environment , said yesterday that preliminary research suggested crops such as barley , peas , cauliflower , sprouts and broccoli were most at risk . |
| 4 | This information could be used to help practitioners — such as doctors and social workers — predict which children were most at risk from abuse , or further abuse , and target their intervention in the appropriate places . |
| 5 | Paradoxically , it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine . |
| 6 | At a time when forces were inexorably at work in Britain itself to produce the bureaucratic form of government we know today , there flourished in the empire a governing ethos which , with its emphasis on character rather than training in its practitioners , its primitive notions of justice , its exaltation of the autonomous agent unhindered by outside control , its demand for loving awe from the governed , was unmistakably the product of an earlier age . |
| 7 | He attracted children and men , but women were less at ease with him . |
| 8 | People in the countryside in central and southern Somalia were especially at risk . |
| 9 | Because of their proximity to the giant Shelton Steelworks these were obviously at risk . |
| 10 | The wives were normally at home and therefore within earshot when assistance was needed . |
| 11 | They have claimed that Sarah and Jane were barely troubled by the divorce as they were away at school , that Charles , aged four , was too young to understand while Diana , then seven , reacted to the break up with ‘ the unthinking resilience of her age ’ or even regarded it as ‘ fresh excitement ’ in her young life . |
| 12 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 13 | ‘ You were away at college . |
| 14 | But while the men were away at war , the rule was relaxed . |
| 15 | I understood in Committee that they were already at work . |
| 16 | The Heath and Maudling camps were already at work ; but then Enoch Powell let it be known that he too would be running . |
| 17 | Anne and Maureen were already at home . |
| 18 | When Frederick attacked the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 to snatch the province of Silesia from her , Britain and Spain were already at war , and there were two or three areas where France and Britain were likely to clash , though Macaulay was quite right to underline the world-wide dimensions of the struggle . |
| 19 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 20 | Most families , especially the young and old , were always at risk from hypothermia in the winter . |
| 21 | but erm he was on about certain aspects that he picked up from her , but having been in gypsy caravans round here , as when they were on Line Brook you see we were always at Line Brook for one reason or another |
| 22 | They challenged Leakey 's conclusions because these conclusions were totally at variance with their own firm beliefs , to wit modern man is directly descended from Australopithecus . |
| 23 | Although France and Great Britain were technically at peace , constant clashes occurred between their forces both on sea and on land . |
| 24 | The resulting Peace of Kallias of 449 did not , however , affect the diplomatic position of Sparta , and it is easy to be misled by the Athens-centred character of the written sources and forget that Sparta and Persia were technically at war right down to 412 BC . |
| 25 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 26 | The shorter men were more at risk because they had less efficient lung function compared with the taller men , according to the researchers at The Royal Free Hospital , north London . |
| 27 | Young people , black people and men were more at risk from burglary , particularly if they lived in the Mildmay area For theft from the person , women are in general more at risk than men , blacks are more likely to be victimised than whites and the risk of victimisation decreases with age . |
| 28 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 29 | — A National Radiological Protection Board report published on Tuesday said there was no clear evidence to suggest people exposed to electromagnetic fields were more at risk from cancer . |
| 30 | A greater proportion of Welsh boys than girls seemed to be trying drugs , although figures from the Wirral suggested that girls were more at risk there . |