Example sentences of "[was/were] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 5 | Well on the issue of what 's happening in the er Health Authority here , it 's a very much erm a surprise to everybody because those of us who were at the last meeting that we had , only a couple of months ago , to quite categorically saying that , she , that she was just not interested in the . |
| 6 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 7 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 8 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 9 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |
| 10 | But the killer shot certainly was at the 13th when Seve drove into the bunker . |
| 11 | His most significant appearance was at the second day of the Putney debates , where he was the only civilian present besides the legally trained and dialectically more skilled ( Sir ) John Wildman [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 13 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 14 | Princess Margaret was at the next table with Mr and Mrs Paul Newall , . |
| 15 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 16 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 17 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
| 18 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 19 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 20 | Must say , I know some of you do n't like boxing , erm , I was at the last tournament in Honiton . |
| 21 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 22 | I was at the last Olympics and it was a tremendous experience . |