Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was achieved often at the expense of those whom Gladstone 's political intuition told him were the " natural leaders of the nation ; his second ministry ( 1880–84 ) was barren by comparison . |
| 2 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 3 | This was directed particularly at the sheriff , William Crowmer , and his father-in-law , Lord Say , who as Sir James Fiennes had been sheriff in 1442 . |
| 4 | This was aimed less at the poor themselves than at those able to help them and ‘ not able to make use of Physitians and Chirurgians ’ . |
| 5 | No evidence was found to lead us , including the Judge Advocate General , to think that the convictions were unsound or that the accused were treated unfairly at the time . ’ |
| 6 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 7 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 8 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 9 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 10 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 11 | The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 . |
| 12 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |