Example sentences of "[noun sg] was at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 2 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 3 | The reverse had a marked impact on Moltke , whose mental concentration was at that time directed to the western theatre . |
| 4 | The flag at Magdalen College was at half mast today as students learned of the death of Leigh Don Lau . |
| 5 | The flag at Wadham college was at half mast today as a mark of respect for the two men . |
| 6 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 7 | The institution was at that time entirely concerned with the education of teachers and future teachers , and recruited predominantly , though not exclusively , from the conurbation in which it was located , and which it was designed to serve . |
| 8 | If such a model is correct , we may speculate that the movement of such female associated items may have been enhanced if the giving of women in marriage was at all common . |
| 9 | The error was at most an error within jurisdiction . |
| 10 | Today the flag was at half mast . |
| 11 | The Council was at this stage receiving not only reports from its committees but also the reports of visiting parties . |
| 12 | Her teeth were equally so , and her fresh complexion was at that time glowing with good health ; her blond hair is a beautiful shining blond colour . |
| 13 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 14 | The windows of the Iranian embassy in Washington were forever hung with pots of caviar and magnums of Don Perignon and the whole town was at this feet — until they were swept by the revolution from under him . |
| 15 | The typical industrial town was at this period still a medium-sized city , even by contemporary standards , though as it happened in central and eastern Europe some capital cities ( which tended to be very large ) also became major centres of manufacturing — e.g. Berlin , Vienna and St Petersburg . |
| 16 | I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario . |
| 17 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 18 | The plaintiff was at all material times the beneficial owner of Caliban , a house in Tucker 's Town in Bermuda , which was built on an oblong-shaped area of land measuring 2.85 acres fronting onto the ocean . |
| 19 | It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal . |
| 20 | Well , I believe that … er … your husband was at this particular party … ’ |
| 21 | I mean , your husband was at this party in … ? ’ |
| 22 | The respondent was at all material times a police officer of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 23 | The river Trent was chosen as the dividing line : the two officers were styled ‘ Justice of the Forest this side Trent ’ and ‘ Justice of the Forest beyond Trent ’ , according to where the king was at that particular time . |
| 24 | There were three possible air-launched solutions : the US Air Force 's Skybolt , which could be modified to fit the V-bombers ; a simpler British ‘ ram jet ’ , called Pandora , suitable for the TSR 2 , whose development was at such an early stage that costs could only be guessed ; and further development of the existing Blue Steel stand-off bomb on which work had been stopped after the Sandys Defence Review . |
| 25 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 26 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 27 | Their audiences were found in independent cinemas and discussion groups : their relationship to broadcast television was at that time non-existent . |
| 28 | a very small ship , a frigate , and er the captain was at most Lieutenant Commander and the Princess Royal was doing the re-dedication and because it was the winter it was being done inside a big shed , that 's the background . |
| 29 | The beer was at that time customarily garnished with a slice of lemon . |
| 30 | Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat … |