Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 2 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 3 | The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose . |
| 4 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 5 | Her first public appearance was at the local eisteddfod at the age of four . |
| 6 | I sent Peggy down to the village for yeast and old Meg was at the baker 's , first time in months , and she says her master 's back . ’ |
| 7 | He brought one arm around expansively , and the wooden bunk was at the end of it . |
| 8 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 9 | Its public premiere was at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , on 19 May 1947 , first night of a tour which also brought the company a change of name , to Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 10 | Popular power was at the heart of their vision of a new political and social order . |
| 11 | The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan . |
| 12 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 13 | So far as the original Gramophone Company was concerned , dark green was at the bottom of the pecking-order , although in Britain such records carried a different trade-name , Zonophone . |
| 14 | In Britain Grundig has slashed the price of its European-made V2000 video recorders to less than £300 — thereby making a nonsense of the claim that dumping by Japanese firms was at the root of the crisis in the European industry . |
| 15 | Forget the Cup Final … the real fun was at the play-offs . |
| 16 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 17 | It was felt that central government was at the core of many of the problems , but also to be considered was the mis-management of the NIHE Board and their failure to properly consult and allow the full participation of the tenants themselves , who more often than not are the best experts needed . |
| 18 | But the swirling breeze was at the hunters ' backs , and the big bull suddenly lifted his muzzle to scent in their direction , and a moment later the whole herd was running towards the shelter of the trees . |
| 19 | From the first bars of Mozart 's ‘ Hunt ’ Quartet it was obvious that their effortlessly fluent and natural playing was at the service of artistic integrity . |
| 20 | Counselling in situations of emotional importance was at one end , and bargaining and advocacy over scarce resources was at the other . |
| 21 | She wondered if the shredded look was at the almost unthinkable idea of a woman Prime Minister or at Cassie 's trenchant dismissal of Britain 's wartime defences ; but for the moment the confident and very arrogant ‘ leave everything to me , I know what I 'm about ’ look had been most thoroughly squashed . |
| 22 | A soft fuzzy girl was at the till . |
| 23 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 24 | Air Commodore Jeffery , President RAFA Eastern Area was at the Annual Dinner on 7 June to congratulate the branch on its achievements . |
| 25 | Rumour had it that an unhappy love-affair was at the root of her unpleasant nature . |
| 26 | This tense relationship between bourgeois careerism and communist party political commitment was at the root of the accusation that during this period Nizan had not entirely succeeded in severing his links with his bourgeois past . |
| 27 | We have already had reference this morning to the outcry against the handling of , of the mine closures and it was immense , the case was made by the Parliamentary Success er Select Committee for some serious thinking about energy policy for the future , yet the government did not think again , the political debate was at the level of whether Mr Heseltine would remain in power and nothing was changed . |
| 28 | Fergus Pyle of the Irish Times was at the station when the expected delegation from Liverpool arrived on the morning train . |
| 29 | His first general managership was at the Frankfurt Plaza for Canadian Pacific and he moved to the Regent Hotels in 1982 to run the Melbourne property . |
| 30 | First her challenge to the primacy of ‘ meaning ’ and support of ‘ cool ’ rather than ‘ expressive ’ aesthetic assumptions was at the same time an advocacy of the collapse of some sort of deep level of signified into the signifier . |