Example sentences of "was at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 2 | That situation lead to the proposed wealth tax being stillborn , although the machinery for collection was at an advanced stage , and offices had been constructed . |
| 3 | Jon Geldart , of the accountancy firm Coopers & Lybrand , which is advising the management team , said that the deal was at an advanced stage . |
| 4 | They were given intensive military training on Hainan island prior to going to Thailand in preparation for the invasion of Burma which was at an advanced planning stage . |
| 5 | Dissent flared into civil war after a Sunday Telegraph Gallup poll revealed opposition to the Maastricht Treaty was at an all-time high among Tory backbench MPs . |
| 6 | World cotton consumption was a record 86m bales , and the ratio of stocks to consumption was at an all-time low . |
| 7 | At a time when America 's interest in British pop was at an all-time low , the label failed to produce one significant hit . |
| 8 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 9 | He was at an early age a fluent writer and speaker , and a vigorous , if at times embarrassing , supporter of his father 's cause . |
| 10 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 11 | His head , she realised was at an odd angle . |
| 12 | This increase was at an annual rate of 10 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , due to increased purchases of wheat , maize , sorghum , vegetable oils , dairy products , beans and sugar , all basic foodstuffs . |
| 13 | Complete figures for 1991 are not available , but in the first three quarters plant and machinery investment was at an annual rate of £29 billion , and 52 per cent . |
| 14 | Traffic was at an angry crawl , a dazzling confusion of lights and wet reflections in the premature darkness . |