Example sentences of "was [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIONA was aghast at the Chancellor 's plan to tax fuel and power in the home . |
| 2 | The latter , contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip , was aghast at the prospect of resignation . |
| 3 | Sent away to boarding school when she was six ( she rarely sees her family now ) , she got three A- levels at college and shortly after got married : a mistake , she now realises , but she was pregnant at the time . |
| 4 | The coroner , Mr Lester Madrell , heard in a statement from Mrs MacIllarry , who was pregnant at the time , that she jumped on Jobson , who then pointed the gun at her , she was absolutely terrified , she grabbed her children , leaving her baby buggy bahind , and ran into the store . |
| 5 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 6 | He was due at the Crypt School in Gloucester , an example of the apparent success of Government policy . |
| 7 | Her husband was in close attendance at the moment but Jenny knew he was due at the meeting . |
| 8 | The Report was due at the end of July , and as the summer advanced the mounting drain on the insolvent unemployment insurance fund made the issue still more critical . |
| 9 | CECIL Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , was due at the despatch box to make his statement about the future of British Rail . |
| 10 | The public was apprehensive at the shortage of heat and light and the inconveniences of the three day working week . |
| 11 | Maxton , in reply , foresaw the formation of a new working-class party , but would not agree that unification was opportune at the time . |
| 12 | Costly and time-consuming ( the operation was unfinished at the outbreak of the First World War ) , it was nonetheless essential . |
| 13 | During the next twenty months Mozart composed a substantial amount of music , including three symphonies and what was to be his last complete mass setting , K.337 ( an incomplete one survives , K.427/417a from 1782 , and the Requiem was unfinished at the time of his death ) . |
| 14 | Now it was strange at the time , I only represented the shunters and the guards and the lower grades , I did n't represent the supervisors , yard inspectors at the time . |
| 15 | With regard to Pentos , the Portfolio was uninvested at the start of the period and stayed that way throughout , thereby preserving itself from what would have been a painful experience . |
| 16 | It was awful at the airport . |
| 17 | Brahms 's extraordinary modulations require more precision than was possible at the end of a long programme played without a break . |
| 18 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
| 19 | With Taylor continuing absent from the talks " for security reasons " , debate became bogged down in procedural squabbles and by the NPFL delegation 's complaint that the front was under-represented at the conference . |
| 20 | But his profession was deficient at the time in that he failed to recognise the necessity of suffering . |
| 21 | Although Scott obviously thought that there was nothing wrong in MPs lobbying Palmerston on his behalf , he was upset at the idea of fellow architects criticizing his appointment . |
| 22 | ‘ You recollect the gossip that was rife at the time — that he had run away to a monastery ? ’ |
| 23 | In Watkins [ 1976 ] 1 All ER 578 a Crown Court held that the accused was guilty at the moment of being allowed to borrow . |
| 24 | On the facts the accused was guilty at the time when the label was swapped , not at the time when he removed the item from the shelf , intending to switch the label . |
| 25 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 26 | Very occasionally he also made designs to be carried out by others — and if acting in an architect 's supervisory capacity only he would charge the 5 per cent fee which was normal at the time — while at Ditchley he was , remarkably , employed as both ‘ surveyor ’ , receiving his 5 per cent , and mason contractor . |
| 27 | There was no apparent reason why the road should not have been used as it was free at the time . |
| 28 | The judge 's note of Mr. Gilberd 's evidence when he was cross-examined at the trial included the following : |
| 29 | To make our cup full the children and I went down with Asian flu which was prevalent at the time . |
| 30 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |