Example sentences of "was at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 2 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
| 3 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 4 | Foreign statesmen revere an oil-rich omnipotence : ‘ Now the whole world was at his feet . |
| 5 | Their work bears witness both to the power of partnership and to the powers of expression which we feel able to attribute to groups , to some circle of friends or literary ‘ school ’ — in this case , the group which was at one time drunkenly designated the scholarship boys , angry young men or hypergamists of the Fifties . |
| 6 | We had next to none when I was at drama school and young actors need to know more about what will be expected of them on film sets and television studios . |
| 7 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 8 | It would be true to say that catholic nationalism was at its most formidable in the years between independence and the rise of pragmatic politics in the Republic under Sean Lemass in the late 1950s . |
| 9 | Dáil members would act on a decision of the hierarchy once that hierarchy had said the teaching of the church was at issue , providing of course that the area in question was a grey one , a new territory not previously covered by the generally accepted sacred-profane spheres . |
| 10 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 11 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 12 | I saw the cherry and realized an opportunity was at hand . |
| 13 | Punk was at its zenith and political and cultural oppositions were intense . |
| 14 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 15 | The nature of the intimidation was at first quite subtle . |
| 16 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 17 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 18 | Echinacea purpurea , also native to the American prairies , was at one time included with the rudbeckias as R. purpurea , differing most obviously in having purplish-red ray-florets . |
| 19 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 20 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 21 | The first exhibition meeting was at Lucy 's flat . |
| 22 | And that was at Jay 's place . |
| 23 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 24 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 25 | And yet , none of them , who have so much in common with X , who have so much regard for their fellow man , was at the funeral this afternoon . |
| 26 | Rosengarten was at McGill for Leonard 's first two years or so , and they ran the Fraternity together . |
| 27 | One of Layton 's traits , as Leonard was at pains to emphasise , was to distinguish between priest and prophet ; and Layton is not slow to emphasise the historic conflict between both offices . |
| 28 | And he was now frequently called to other public performances ; his first ‘ professional ’ poetry recital was at Dunn 's Jazz Parlour in Montreal , where he recited ‘ Gift ’ to piano accompaniment , in honour of the ancient traditions of poetry . |
| 29 | The second had a double bed but was at the back of the cottage and overlooked an overgrown vegetable patch . |
| 30 | Steve 's voice was at breaking point . |