Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the noisy thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations , when Deng Xiaoping and his reform programme were at the peak of their popularity , few voices of dissent could be heard . |
| 2 | The years of partnership were at an end . |
| 3 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 4 | Second , Jones ' experiment was at the stage where its results were moving forward the fastest . |
| 5 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 6 | Her bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 7 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 8 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 10 | ’ Gharr was at the spaceport when I landed , and he stopped me tight away . |
| 11 | The tall , thin young man stood up , realizing that the interview was at an end . |
| 12 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 13 | The fires burned through the night , signalling across the forest that the era of the rajathuk was at an end . |
| 14 | You did n't cos the tape was at the beginning of the tape . |
| 15 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 16 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 17 | Hospitals were reduced to emergency cover , schools were closed , and much of industry was at a standstill . |
| 18 | Military expenditure therefore absorbed 70 per cent of revenues , and over half the country 's industry was at a standstill , the remainder working below capacity . |
| 19 | The revival of industry was at the heart of Mr Lamont 's Autumn Statement . |
| 20 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 21 | At the time of our first visit the construction of the large oil terminal was at the planning stage . |
| 22 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 23 | Cycling was at the centre of a number of social panics . |
| 24 | Most of the Committee were at the prize-giving and the cheese and winetasting which followed . |
| 25 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 26 | Thus , the high rates of male upward social mobility out of clerical work were at the expense of the large number of female workers who were left behind . |
| 27 | She and that boy were at the funeral yesterday . |
| 28 | A seneschal , receiver ( equivalent to the constable of Bordeaux ) and controller were at the head of the hierarchy . |
| 29 | The questions provoked by the Wolfenden approach were not new ones ( John Stuart Mill and James Fitzjames Stephens had both discussed such issues ) but they were particularly topical at this point , for questions of law and morality were at the forefront of public consciousness at this time because of , for example , the Wildeblood/Pitt-Rivers case . |
| 30 | However , since about 1985 there had been a divergence of judicial thinking on the subject and the law was at a cross-roads . |