Example sentences of "it was at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at the capture of Mantes that William the Conqueror fell from his horse and received the injury from which he later died in Rouen . |
| 2 | It was at the rehearsal , where Sinead sang Barbra Streisand 's Evergreen , that she met Jeanette 's brother Paul who was in a local band . |
| 3 | Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines . |
| 4 | It was at the village of Bampton , and Grye had a comfortable win . |
| 5 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 6 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 7 | Actually , I think it was at the opening of Pork because Andy came to the opening and David had that song on the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album called ‘ Andy Warhol ’ , so we made sure they met . ’ |
| 8 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 9 | She became pregnant , it was at the ending of the War , when the War was ending you know . |
| 10 | It was at the BAFTA awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London in 1989 when press photographers , seeing the drunken state he was in , decided to keep close to catch the inevitable explosion on film when it came . |
| 11 | So I had no idea where this place was , I knew where it was at the chart but I did n't know where it was from from pier fifty four in New York . |
| 12 | You ca n't — you pick six instead , and that 's just how it was at the Delacroix in Derry . |
| 13 | It was at the Camp that Alison met husband Jeff — who actually lived a few miles away back home ! |
| 14 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 15 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 16 | In contrast , the population of the inner ring is now nearly four times the size it was at the beginning of this century and the population of the outer ring is nearly twice the size . |
| 17 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 18 | A map of the town as it was at the beginning of this century , plus one as it is today , would have added considerably to the understanding of a reader not familiar with the town . |
| 19 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 20 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 21 | The Restoration witnessed an attempt to return , unconditionally , to the country 's position as it was at the beginning of 1642 . |
| 22 | ‘ My attitude is still the same as it was at the beginning of the 1986–87 season and that is , if I can continue to contribute then I 'm happy to do so . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , it was at the beginning of Advent . |
| 24 | I , it were n't , it was at the beginning ! |
| 25 | It was at the museum . |
| 26 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 27 | As Charles Wolf points out there had been mounting Congressional criticism of the Administration 's alleged neglect of Asia and although the strength of Republican feeling had been resisted in the matter of China it was at the cost of a critical concession in Southeast Asia generally — Vietnam in particular — which accorded , nevertheless , with the sentiments and announced global purposes of US policy : to resist communism , to encourage free peoples throughout the world , and to strengthen democratic nations against aggression . |
| 28 | Hotspur asked negligently ; and it was at the girl 's wry face that he looked . |
| 29 | ‘ It was at the base of his chart , to do with his family , his roots , his line . |
| 30 | Maman said it was at the back , the other way from the bathroom end of the corridor . |