Example sentences of "[was/were] at [art] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the celebrations were at a height the lady who had been rescued said she would present a piece of silver when she got back to England to the squadron and what would they like . |
| 2 | We were at The Belfry the week before and I was due to fly from there up to St Andrews directly after the event . |
| 3 | While they were at the pub a fight broke out , which was declared incidental to the case in question , during the course of which a beer glass had been hurled against the ceiling and landed close to them . |
| 4 | The Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young affiliate firms , Showa Ota and Asahi Shinwa , were at the time the third and fourth largest auditors in Japan , with fee incomes of around Y10bn each . |
| 5 | I hear you were at the Empire the other night ? |
| 6 | ‘ I was at a dinner the other night and the Chancellor was speaking . |
| 7 | Now I was at a wedding a little while back and all they were asking me was are you gon na be the next one ? |
| 8 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 9 | And she was at the cemetery every day with |
| 10 | In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass . |
| 11 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 12 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 13 | Indeed , Lord Plowden ( who was at the time a civil servant engaged in economic planning and subsequently the chairman of a public corporation ) has recently suggested that the blueprint laid down in the Act was arguably too detailed , and that questions such as the division of powers between the centre and Area Boards could rationally be placed within the purview of nationalised industry management rather than of Parliament . |
| 14 | Drafted by the Conservative Research Department , it was presented by William Whitelaw , the Shadow Home Secretary , and David Howell , formerly a junior Minister who had worked under Whitelaw at the Northern Ireland Office and was at the time a Front Bench spokesman on Home Affairs . |
| 15 | Sud ( now Aerospatiale ) was at the time a partner with Dassault and this is why the type certificate for the aircraft states " Dassault-Sud " . |
| 16 | , Peter ( 1850–1918 ) , locomotive engineer , was born 13 August 1850 in Polmont , Stirlingshire , the son of George Drummond , who was at the time a permanent-way inspector on that section of the North British Railway , and his wife Christina Thomson . |
| 17 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With these on-board sensors and airframe structural modifications , s/n 157 ( N166RS ) was at the time the most expensive Falcon in the world , costing 2.5 million dollars . |
| 20 | Well , I was at the hospital a month ago and my blood pressure 's up a wee bit . |