Example sentences of "it [was/were] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well . |
| 2 | My problem , therefore , would perhaps appear to lie with my speakers , but the G-K cost a fortune so I would be surprised if it were at fault . |
| 3 | For it was at court , as the more astute realised , that positions of power and wealth were to be found . |
| 4 | It was at Easter ( a late Greek Easter ) that Elizabeth came to Greece in 1964 . |
| 5 | She did n't want her relationship with her chief to become any closer than it was at present . |
| 6 | It was at Snaefellsness that I saw the bird I had hoped to find — and which was ‘ new ’ to me — the Brünnich 's guillemot . |
| 7 | If she went out it was at night and she would arrange her veils so that they covered her face four times . |
| 8 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 9 | ‘ They did n't attempt to clear the area of fighting , particularly since it was at night … |
| 10 | Clothing was rationed , as it was at home , but without a ‘ textile ticket ’ one could quite easily obtain goods in the regular shops by openly paying the assistant a bribe . |
| 11 | Petrol consumption was high , with the price often twice what it was at home . |
| 12 | It was at home . |
| 13 | I must have been at , well I 'm sure it was at home . |
| 14 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 15 | But it was at school that Brian 's musical talents flourished . |
| 16 | It was at school , and my memories of chemistry is laboratories full of stink bombs , full of bangs , and rather unpleasant chemicals . |
| 17 | What you 're finding is , depends normally on length of service with a company , er , but the longer someone 's been there , I think th the best I 've heard , and that 's what I used to get , was sort of six months full salary , six months half salary , after that it was at company discretion . |
| 18 | The atmosphere was as lively as it was at Church House itself . |
| 19 | But on the other hand this hostility to the new God was not an original reaction either ; it had its prototype in a hostile impulse against his father , which had come into existence under the influence of the anxiety-dream [ concerning wolves and mentioned earlier in the analysis ] , and it was at bottom only a revival of that impulse . |
| 20 | Now , this was Howard 's first day in the place ( he reminded the Chases and their guests , preparing them dramatically for what was to come ) and he had some vague impression at the back of his mind , left over perhaps from books he had read and films he had seen , that it was at bottom some kind of ecclesiastical institution . |
| 21 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 22 | District controller Ian Jackson stressed the new boat is not an RNLI rescue boat , although it will respond to distress calls while it was at sea . |
| 23 | It was at university that he first began to perform , and he later went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg . |
| 24 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 25 | It was at Serenity we lost Angie , a few years later . |
| 26 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |
| 27 | Rostov 's body was still firmly encased in the pod 's foam safety envelope , but now the system obligingly extended a bar switch until it was at mouth level . |
| 28 | Cong Poc and his wife Hin lived in Kirkbymoorside with their three children after being forced to flee Vietnam when it was at war with China 14 years ago . |
| 29 | It was the young lady who now spoke : ‘ You wo n't remember , of course , I scarcely do , but years ago my grandfather brought me to this shop , and it was at Christmas time too . |
| 30 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |