Example sentences of "[was/were] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many short-term economies were at the long-term expense of both efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 2 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 3 | I beg your pardon I beg your pardon twelve , these two things were separate you know one could be added to the other in looking an as it were at the total employment requirement . |
| 4 | However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 . |
| 5 | They were at the Labour Party conference together last year and that 's when it began . |
| 6 | So they too were at the papal Curia ready with their reply when the monks of Canterbury arrived . |
| 7 | Ozone levels over much of North America and Europe were at the lowest levels on record in February , at between 9 and 20 per cent below normal , following a winter of persistently depleted levels . |
| 8 | Now they were at the elegant pavement café beside the library . |
| 9 | Somebody told you that Vecchi and the girl were at the Regal Arms . |
| 10 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 11 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |
| 12 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 13 | They were at the sharp end of an operation conceived at the Oxford based company Unipart . |
| 14 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 15 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 16 | But the best chances were at the other end , and John Durnin who 's enjoying a new lease of life on the south coast should have set the ball rolling before half-time . |
| 17 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 18 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 19 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 20 | The band , dressed in evening wear and sitting on a raised dais , were at the far end of the hall . |
| 21 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 22 | It was odd when he came to think about it , but every now and again one or two of them would be posted , yet the five men who had accompanied him from Cranwell , and whose beds were at the far end of the hut , were still here . |
| 23 | They were at the deep end of the pool and both trod water to keep afloat . |
| 24 | ‘ Her reports were at the best misleading and at worst untrue reports , ’ Mr McMillan said . |
| 25 | They were at the highest point for twenty li about . |
| 26 | Yesterday , Paddy and the artist Pandora Sellars , who drew the illustrations for the stamps , were at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow to publicise the issue , which celebrates the conference being held in the city-based Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre at the end of the month . |
| 27 | In ritual status they were at the very top of the system and ranked higher even than the kings . |
| 28 | The book-collector can obviously fight his corner here with examples from well-known authors and historic figures who either drew the cheques or were at the receiving end . |
| 29 | We were at the opposite poles of humanity . |
| 30 | Of course , they were at the opposite ends of the price range . |