Example sentences of "their [noun] [was/were] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 2 | Their alliance was at an end . |
| 3 | Their relationship was at an end . |
| 4 | The Press Complaints Commission is to rule on a complaint from the parents of eight-year-old Jennifer Bennett about their treatment by the media after their daughter was at the centre of the row over Labour 's pre-election health broadcast . |
| 5 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |