Example sentences of "[det] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely . |
| 2 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 3 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 4 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 5 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 6 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |
| 7 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |
| 8 | ‘ This was at the police station , was it ? ’ |
| 9 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 10 | In half ( 11 cases ) this was at the patients ' request because of poor function . |
| 11 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 12 | ‘ This was at the Palace ? ’ |
| 13 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 14 | At least a terminus post quem for Molla Arab 's service as can be established from several scattered statements in the that before becoming a Molla Arab studied under Hizir Bey while the latter was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa ; that Hizir Bey was appointed to that medrese by Mehmed II ; and that Hizir Bey recommended Hocazade to Murad II after Hocazade had served as his muid at the Sultan medrese . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1920s they were acknowledged as leaders of national status and by 1939 each was at the head of his political movement : though in the case of Jinnah some thought he was past his prime . |
| 16 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 17 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 18 | That was at the heart of the process at the outset , and it remains so . |
| 19 | ‘ That was at the insistence of Military Intelligence , ’ he answered curtly . |
| 20 | But that was at the bottom of the second paragraph . |
| 21 | And it was his concern for Silvia that was at the root of his anger . |
| 22 | Er that was at the time of er er King Edward the seventh , s It was time of his death was n't it ? |
| 23 | N I have worked with her on , she is responsible for some artist to do in Belgium and I needed some information on some artist who worked , that was at the time when I was doing eh , P R campaigns for er , Sheba , the cat product , and we needed . |
| 24 | furniture , oh I think that was at the front I quite like that for the boys bedroom as well with the bed set in |
| 25 | That was at the front |
| 26 | And my brothers both went to er , a headmaster from the high school set up on his own and they both went there , and that was at the corner of Avenue on Road . |
| 27 | Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to . |
| 28 | So when the Sasperella was brought down , that was at the end of it . |
| 29 | Neither was at the time of the sale physically attached to the realty . |