Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the cameras were only at one game and Goulding was the sacrificial ‘ bad boy ’ . |
| 2 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 3 | Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour . |
| 4 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 5 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 6 | His most effective performance — except that there were not at that stage a great many people who were able to listen — was his broadcast . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note that the commander of one region , extending from Jerusalem to the coast , is named as John the Essene — another indication that the Essenes were not at all pacifist . |
| 8 | Aggregating Dolgikh 's figures , we can arrive at the approximate numbers for the peoples of Siberia in the seventeenth century ( including some 69,000 people of the Altai-Sayan and the far East who were not at this time Russian subjects ) as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 9 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |
| 10 | This would be difficult to do if the chicks hatched at different times and were thus at different stages of development and strength . |
| 11 | Many of the full-time farmers and the more established part-time farmers were already at maximum output so room for increase was limited . |
| 12 | The Santerres were already at high table , Mandeville also . |
| 13 | ‘ As strikers , we were always at opposite ends of the field so I never really came into contact with Frank on the park , ’ recalls Pearson . |
| 14 | It says a lot about the present that the recent past has become the subject of much dewy-eyed recollection — mostly by people who were still at primary school when Grandmaster Flash began cutting his way into musical history . |
| 15 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 16 | And William was a very careful man , we may be sure : while they were still at 24 Wilmington Square , and he was still only in his twenties , he had the foresight to arrange for a Titford family grave at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington . |
| 17 | Last night , emergency services were still at full stretch and a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged . |
| 18 | They were both at higher floors so she ran up the stairs instead . |
| 19 | Great Britain and Germany were only alike in one respect ; they were both at that time contented powers . |
| 20 | The three defendants were also at this morning 's viewing . |
| 21 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 22 | The cooks were up at 0500 hours , preparing the usual early breakfast for men condemned to hard work . |
| 23 | Of course native Siberians sometimes fought among themselves , just as the various national and religious communities of Europe were often at each other 's throats . |
| 24 | Northern Ireland international Mal Donaghy and his colleagues in the Chelsea defence were often at full stretch to keep out this dynamic duo , who were ably supported by the surging runs of Republic of Ireland international midfielder Roy Keane . |
| 25 | The first vehicle patrols were out at 0600 hours , so reveille was at 0430 hours . |
| 26 | He and Pilger were now at each other 's throats , with the showdown already on the horizon — the dummy edition of Sunday 7 December . |
| 27 | He resolved to push on , despite the fact that Ruzski and Brusilov , though advancing tardily , were now at most 48km/30mls from severing the northern Austrian armies from their line of retreat and Plehve had succeeded in extricating his army from encirclement . |
| 28 | From the 520's onwards , however , the Merovingians were regularly at each other 's throats ; Theuderic I attempted to murder his half-brother Chlothar I ; Chlothar and Childebert I did kill the sons of Chlodomer ; Childebert and Theuderic 's son Theudebert I almost fought against Chlothar , but a storm miraculously prevented a battle taking place . |
| 29 | So can you think of any er brochures or any companies which were around at that time to take advantage ? |
| 30 | How many children were there at each period ? |