Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] at [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His journals in particular constitute a moving memorial to a young man of integrity and moral courage , whose determination not to succumb to pain and humiliation was at times heroic . |
| 2 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 3 | The WISE bus roadshow was at Groves High School , Wrexham for three days . |
| 4 | The 27-year-old North-East man was at times impatient and ragged and displayed the expected ring rust from the ten-month lay-off he had had before the fight . |
| 5 | The dolls became amusing , and at times touching , symbols of childhood moods , and although the treatment was at times sentimental it also had a genuine gaiety . |
| 6 | To the east lay border regions — Berry and Auvergne — where even the Duke 's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful . |