Example sentences of "[was/were] at [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 2 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 3 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 4 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 5 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 6 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 7 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 8 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 9 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 10 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 11 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it was at least a change . |
| 13 | The paddle in , around , and out again , was at least a mile . |
| 14 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 15 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 16 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 17 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |
| 18 | This was to achieve little save loss , but it was at least a factor in bringing the German attack at Verdun to an end . |
| 19 | Specific point of the South Wales police authority 's difficulties , would he not say that at least they 're partly due to the police authority believing that it was going to be er underspending in the current year and being out in its calculations by about two million pounds , would n't you think that that was at least a factor ? |
| 20 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 21 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 22 | There was at least a proviso that she should be asked for her written consent before the company was set up but otherwise she was not mentioned in his plans for the future of the schools . |
| 23 | There was at least a sufficiency of migrant Italian house and garden servants , who rendered any conventional mother 's help more than redundant . |
| 24 | The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines , only elusively within reach of the King 's justice , but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there ; but Gwynedd , though it formerly owned Henry as suzerain , was a free principality , and could harbour runaways and make short work of captured felons with impunity . |
| 25 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 26 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |
| 27 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 28 | When the Popular Front , including the French Communist Party , came to power in France in June 1936 there was at least the hope that , by their actions , significant improvements , political as well as economic and social , might be achieved in Vietnam . |
| 29 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 30 | She was at least the image of an injured Stealer , blackened and fused by fire , one which had lost some appendages , perhaps lasered off , perhaps in an explosion ; a Stealer which still remained very much alive and able to use its deadly main claws . |