Example sentences of "it was at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at 2345 on Thursday 8 March 1990 that Shannon MRCC notified the station honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station that a local fishing vessel , the 65ft Locative , was in difficulties — drifting with no power and uncertain of her position . |
| 2 | Heralded by the media ( for whom it was largely designed ) , it was at best a mixed success . |
| 3 | It was at best inadequate and , at worse , an excuse for doing nothing . |
| 4 | It was at best a mere palliative and at worst it actively sustained the unfit and degenerate elements of the population in their reckless overbreeding . |
| 5 | In reconstructing the circumstances of the crash , the Mexican investigators concluded that the Falcon was actually 40 miles further away from ACA VOR than it had reported — i.e. , it was at 75 nmi when the pilot reported 35 nmi . |
| 6 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 7 | It lasted only ten seconds and it was at four in the morning when nobody was around . |
| 8 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 9 | I could n't see who it was at first , then I realised it was my husband . |
| 10 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 11 | It was at first , through proximity , an extended family whose members were as strongly bound together as those who live within the nuclear structure . |
| 12 | It was at first hoped to offer hotel type accommodation which residents chose , as a third option to hospital or community care . |
| 13 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 14 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 15 | Ecology could exist at the research level even though it was at first difficult to introduce it into the universities and schools as an academic discipline . |
| 16 | It was at first your great |
| 17 | Like many titles embraced by new reforming movements , it was at first thought rather vulgar . |
| 18 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 19 | It was at first assumed that the Queen Mother would leave the hospital early this morning , but this now appeared unlikely . |
| 20 | It was at first feared that the car bomb had been planted by terrorists and nearby residents in the Liverpool suburb were evacuated while Army bomb disposal experts examined the scene . |
| 21 | It 's not like it was at first . |
| 22 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 23 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 24 | It was at one of these that the Empress was provoked into a comment at the expense of her husband 's current favourite , the Countess of Castiglione , who had appeared at the ball dressed as the Queen of Hearts . |
| 25 | It was at one of these that Ace was planning another assault on the summit . |
| 26 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 27 | It was at one period customary , where a town was the centre of the see of a bishop and where in consequence there was a cathedral , to classify the town as a city . |
| 28 | It was at one with consumer bodies in wishing to see their activities stopped . |
| 29 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 30 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |