Example sentences of "was [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This perilous situation was unrecognized at the French Supreme Headquarters , but was swiftly apparent to the watchful and questioning Lanrezac . |
| 2 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
| 3 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 4 | But he was friendly at the next GP and apologised . ’ |
| 5 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 6 | Everything was rosy at the Red House , which Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Morris 's close friend and mentor described as ‘ more a poem than a house … but an admirable place to live in too , . |
| 7 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |
| 8 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 9 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 10 | She only mentioned Margaret twice — once tenderly : ‘ the beautiful curtains Margaret and I chose together ’ — once tartly : ‘ Margaret would never prepare her lectures … just gather a few notes together and wonder why she was nervous at the last moment . |
| 11 | On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned . |
| 12 | When they went out to dinner ( for they were a ‘ top team , ! ) she was incredulous at the Great Gatsby look of the other diners — all middle-aged . |
| 13 | Phil Hanlon , director of health promotion with Greater Glasgow Health Board , said the medical profession was alarmed at the statistical trend . |
| 14 | The City was alarmed at the hefty slide into the red and a heavily reduced dividend payout and knocked 19p off the share price to 173p . |
| 15 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 16 | In 1930 , though , Eliot wrote to Dobrée that he thought order and authority dangerous catchwords and was horrified at the modern scorning of democracy ; he worried about the way national and racial characteristics were becoming contested issues . |
| 17 | There is also evidence that ideological opposition to population control , which was widespread at the 1974 and 1984 conferences , is on the wane . |
| 18 | A practical testing of Professor David Tweedie 's long-held wish for a ‘ hanging case ’ for the Financial Reporting Review Panel was frustrated at the last minute when Trafalgar House backed down and agreed to restate its 1991 figures in its next published accounts . |
| 19 | Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 . |
| 20 | Pope John was present at the general congregation on 7 December . |
| 21 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 22 | I have heard her voice and spoken to her lover and been walking with the Masai who was present at the farcical and tragic lion hunt . |
| 23 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 24 | Chest and abdominal computed tomography was performed every six months when lymph node or lung involvement was present at the initial staging . |
| 25 | A quick telephone call to Membray and a further last minute briefing confirmed that all was well at the other end . |
| 26 | The boy told his family last week he was unhappy at the special school he 's supposed to be studying at and planned to escape . |
| 27 | On 15 December 1806 John was married at the ancient parish church of St John the Baptist at Penistone , about a mile away from his new home , to a local girl named Mary Woodcock . |
| 28 | It was good at the fair , Mum . |
| 29 | The success of the project was evident at the first concert last year . |
| 30 | Activity to stimulate disc development more generally , however , was evident at the 1991 Frankfurt Book Fair and this may clarify and stimulate the British situation . |