Example sentences of "[was/were] at [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
2 | Gareth had intelligently chosen smooth-barked saplings all the way and all the marks were at the same height , at about waist level , where painting came to him most naturally , it seemed . |
3 | Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources . |
4 | We used to work eight hour shifts — morning , evening and night — and of these the night duties were at the same time the most boring and the most exciting , depending on whether there was anything ‘ on ’ . |
5 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
6 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
7 | It is , moreover , an irony that these ministers ( Gaitskell , Jay , Wilson ) were at the same time preparing a Full Employment Bill which assumed a major capacity for planning within the government machine . |
8 | She looked from one to the other to make sure they were at the same height . |
9 | All were at the same stage of their career , applying for their first senior house officer post in a non-teaching hospital because applications to teaching hospitals usually require completion of a form . |
10 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
11 | Now the thing about this crew and the crews that you were talking about from the Hundredth Bomb Group , the , I guess the most famous crew from the Hundred Bomb Group is with the Roses Rivetus Now our crews were at the same time . |
12 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
13 | Newcastle were at the same game — watching their Mechelin trialist Kennet Andersson . |
14 | Smith , Gregg and Andrews ( 1989 ) devised the following ranking of selection methods with respect to their predictive validity : graphology and astrology were at the same level as chance prediction , references and interviews were a little higher , then structured interviews , then biodata , personality tests and assessment centres for performance , then ability tests and work sample tests and finally , at the highest level , assessment centres for promotion . |
15 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
16 | They were at the same impasse . |
17 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
18 | At the time of writing , Prudential 's shares were at an all time high , which might serve to back up Mr Lawrence 's point . |
19 | It was at the latter that Fleischmann worked , initially as a fellow sponsored by Ia , the major chemical company , and then as a lecturer . |
20 | By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 . |
21 | According to the Confederation of British Industry , in 1980 when unemployment was at the same level as now , around 5% of firms were reporting skill shortages ; the equivalent figure in 1990 was around 25% . |
22 | However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was . |
23 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
24 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
25 | So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
28 | The previous generic name for many of them , Heros , was at the same time restricted to our old friend the Severum , so that can not be used . |
29 | Equally , St Paul 's , Shadwell , was at the same time looking for a £6 fee for each iron or lead coffin deposited within a brick-lined grave in the churchyard , though their most expensive intramural location commanded a charge of only £4 18s . |
30 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |