Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 2 | This in in sharp contrast to the 1970s and most of the 1980s when the UGT and CCOO were bitterly at odds . |
| 3 | Jaq 's sensual lips were definitely at odds with his sceptical ice-blue eyes . |
| 4 | As early as 1249 , when England and Scotland were nominally at peace and recognized each other as separate kingdoms , a commission of English and Scottish knights framed a code of Laws and Customs of the Marches for use in local and national disputes and transgressions , though it was to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 5 | Since , as has throughout been common ground , the defendants were not at liberty to divulge to others information acquired as agents for Mr. Brant , the defendants could not tell the plaintiff the true position without breaching their duty to Mr. Brant . |
| 6 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 7 | The Lamonts were n't at home . |
| 8 | In early January , 71,000 out of 187,000 miners were back at work . |
| 9 | Soon the skilled steel workers and the coal miners were back at work and there was money in the valleys for traders , services and shop keepers . |
| 10 | The national strike started on 3 May , with less support in Nottinghamshire than many other fields ( Sunley , 1988 ) ; work continued unbroken at Blidworth and Clipstone , two of the newly-opened Dukeries pits , and by September some 70 per cent of the county 's miners were back at work ( Griffin , 1962 , p. 183 ) . |
| 11 | On the approach to the European monetary system , Prime Minister and Chancellor were more at odds . |
| 12 | When Frederick attacked the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 to snatch the province of Silesia from her , Britain and Spain were already at war , and there were two or three areas where France and Britain were likely to clash , though Macaulay was quite right to underline the world-wide dimensions of the struggle . |
| 13 | Despite Swansea lodging a protest , the FA yesterday ruled that Exeter were not at fault for the abandonment . |
| 14 | And although the bureaucratic mice were invisibly at work , he still went through the motions of shifting hands and improving his grip on the branch . |
| 15 | Well , the Gold Cup meeting may be over for another year , but two of the most popular racehorses for decades were back at Cheltenham today to compete against each other for charity . |
| 16 | Four days later a different camera team were up at Ramsbottom to film a spectacular incident involving a car and a diesel locomotive , and all this happened right in the middle of the ELR 's ‘ all diesel weekend ’ . |
| 17 | Penelope Warlock and Glenda Grower were both at home , marking . |
| 18 | Those Nonjurors who remained committed to a Jacobite restoration were often at odds with St Germain , being both anti-French and anti-Catholic . |
| 19 | The beliefs of this group centred on Downing Street were completely at odds with the ideas of most of the Great and Good whom , indeed , they regarded as a symptom of the problem . |
| 20 | THE visit to the Alhambra next day was not the joy Maggie had hoped it would be , at least not initially , because Candace and Peter Rainford were there at breakfast and even more resolute in their determination to join Felipe 's party . |
| 21 | The other grandparents were still at work . |
| 22 | A couple of our bareboat yachts were still at sea , and Wavebreaker had one more paying charter to complete , but otherwise McIllvanney 's yard had the torpor of tropical summer about it . |
| 23 | Health authorities , doctors , nurses , professional organizations , trade unions , administrators and managers were seriously at odds over whether the proposed reforms to the hospital service were beneficial or disastrous , and the all-consuming nature of the massive organizational ‘ shake-up ’ preoccupied the NHS and the media almost to the exclusion of anything else . |
| 24 | Dr Nigel Paul , a Lancaster biologist now in the third year of a research programme funded by the Department of the Environment , said yesterday that preliminary research suggested crops such as barley , peas , cauliflower , sprouts and broccoli were most at risk . |
| 25 | Most of the facts about how an investment group could be allowed to draw in tens of millions of pounds of people 's savings for years after regulators had first spotted that things were amiss at Barlow Clowes were revealed in a report by Sir Godfray Le Quesne commissioned last year by the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young . |
| 26 | Earnings per share were down at 0.81p against 1.05p . |
| 27 | Between 1468 and 1718 Turkey and Venice were officially at war seven times , the period of hostilities totalling forty-two years . |
| 28 | Small-boat owners were off at moorings indulging themselves , checking gear or tinkering with engines . |
| 29 | Kenneth Wiper , defending , said the financial dealings were not at issue . |
| 30 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |