Example sentences of "was at [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take one example , in October 1988 male unemployment in East London was at the highest levels in the South-East : 21 per cent in Tower Hamlets ; 18 per cent in Southwark and 14 per cent in Newham , reflecting the acute poverty and low levels of education in these areas . |
| 2 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 3 | Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' . |
| 4 | Most early plantation development was at the higher elevations , especially in the central highlands , which covered parts of Kandy , Nuvara Eliya and Badulla districts . |
| 5 | It was at the Civil Engineers ' Hall . ’ |
| 6 | In particular they want to speak to anyone who saw a black man , aged about 24 , who was at the Social Services office in Calthorpe Street and was also seen later at Banbury and Oxford train stations . |
| 7 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 8 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 9 | I was at the last Olympics and it was a tremendous experience . |
| 10 | Many of these factories work at night ; when manufacturing output was at the high levels of the late 1970s , many thousands of people went to sleep ( or tried to ) with the sound of local industries buzzing in their ears . |