Example sentences of "[was/were] at [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their rural isolation Belorussian peasants were at first little affected by anti-religious campaigns and actions emanating from the towns , even if priests disappeared and churches were commandeered . |
| 2 | Some feared the use of the schools by proselytizers to indoctrinate the children in protestant principles , especially as the local managers were at first mainly clergy of the established church . |
| 3 | The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family . |
| 4 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 5 | It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected , as such , by himself . |
| 6 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 7 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 8 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 9 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 10 | Our data clearly demonstrate that the election results in individual local authorities in 1990 were at most only marginally affected by absolute or relative poll tax levels . |
| 11 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 12 | Truman 's new secretary of state , James F. Byrnes , was at first serenely confident that he could carry on the Roosevelt approach to Stalin with the American nuclear monopoly in reserve in his " hip pocket " , and with no automatic supporting role for the British . |
| 13 | When his teacher , Mauve , and then Tersteeg , the manager at Goupil 's whom he had counted a friend , both turned against him , he was at first bitterly hurt . |
| 14 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 15 | German ‘ pure ’ contrapuntal keyboard music was at first always for organ , not harpsichord , and stylistically modelled on the Venetians , as may be seen in the two fantasies and two canzoni francese in Paix 's book and the various organ works of Hassler and his successor at Augsburg , Christian Erbach ( c. 1570–1635 ) . |
| 16 | The reception of the schema was at first fairly favourable , but gradually became more and more hostile , with Cardinal Heenan of Westminster emerging as perhaps the harshest critic . |
| 17 | The Master of Ceremonies on the left of the picture , for example , was at first considerably slimmer , his head thrown back . |
| 18 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 19 | This was at first very difficult because he knew as little English as I knew German . |
| 20 | Progress on arrangements for the voluntary transfer of those in housing need from the big cities to the smaller surrounding townships was at first very slow . |
| 21 | This is probably why , even when a ‘ school ’ of Cubist painting came into existence , there was at first very little Cubist sculpture . |
| 22 | When I read it , I was at first very put off , but I 'm glad I persevered , as in the end I was quite charmed , and thought it contained some very shrewd observations , too . |
| 23 | The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel . |
| 24 | Cement was at first usually packed in battels or casks , this was considered to be the most effective way of keeping the cement dry . |
| 25 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 26 | The relief of being able to believe in his innocence was at first so great that temporarily it overwhelmed him . |
| 27 | The nature of the intimidation was at first quite subtle . |
| 28 | The Roman response was at first somewhat sluggish . |
| 29 | Being by nature fairly cautious and sometimes reluctant to adapt to change , I was at first somewhat bemused by an array of unfamiliar terms — competence elements , HN units , performance criteria . |
| 30 | ‘ The last time he was seen alive was at six o'clock in the evening by Mr Ealey . |