Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inadequate return on capital might mean that we are getting less than we would if the money was at work in the money market but whereas the development of the business is within our control interest rates are not . |
| 2 | Thinking was difficult … and the banquet was at night . |
| 3 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 4 | But for a brief space the archbishop was at peace with both pope and emperor , and this was an alliance even the commune could not withstand . |
| 5 | At 8.20 , the cyclist was at Haymarket , the motorbike was bowling along the West Approach Road , and the car was still 1.5 miles behind , at Hutchison Crossway . |
| 6 | The antidote was at hand ; it was any real , warm , live female . |
| 7 | While the triumvirate was at work , moreover , Orlov , the senior member of the Secret Committee , completed a manoeuvre which rendered peasant reform even less likely than it was already . |
| 8 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 9 | The wedding was at Hurstly . |
| 10 | The fighting was at stalemate until noon , when the soldiers raised a white flag , and a voice cried out in the Chinook jargon : ‘ Colonel Miles would like to see Chief Joseph ’ . |
| 11 | The car was at home . |
| 12 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 13 | when the plaintiff can not prove that the defendant was at fault . |
| 14 | The first day of the first month in the Year of the Horse was at hand . |
| 15 | The princess was at Mrs Lonsdale 's wedding in 1984 to former Royal Navy lieutenant James Lonsdale . |
| 16 | The princess was at Mrs Lonsdale 's wedding in 1984 to former Royal Navy lieutenant James Lonsdale . |
| 17 | For while Hare was playing out his dotage , the backroom was at work . |
| 18 | One tradition says that the marriage was at Priesthill and another that it was ‘ in a secluded spot near Sorn ’ . |
| 19 | Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school . |
| 20 | A third man , Mark Seaton , who survived the fall was at Bristol Crown Court to give evidence . |
| 21 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 22 | This opinion was consistent with the opinion which Mr. Tinker had formed while the deceased was at Samuel Saye House and that Dr. Rao had formed in the period before the deceased 's death . |
| 23 | If they are able to remember the unpleasant incidents of their youth , their logical mind tells them that it was wrong and that the abuser was at fault . |
| 24 | Mr White Face 's mode of progression through the forest was at odds with my previous guide , Balbindor , and his method of procedure ; but then , the trees , the very trees we passed through , were different . |
| 25 | The cordoba was at intervals during 1990 devalued against the US dollar , from 23,492 cordobas to the dollar in January |
| 26 | Where the plaintiff was at fault and contributed to his own injuries , is it necessary to balance the plaintiff 's contributory negligence against each defendant separately ? |
| 27 | It should be stressed that in the first period , when the plaintiff was at Addenbrookes hospital , that is from June nineteen eighty seven to May nineteen eighty eight , at least one parent was in attendance for eight hours a day . |
| 28 | The warren was at peace . |
| 29 | If the Howard letter does belong to 1469 , it shows that the duke was at Colchester on 21 July and was then planning to travel northwards to Bury St Edmunds . |
| 30 | If the Howard letter does belong to 1469 , it shows that the duke was at Colchester on 21 July and was then planning to travel northwards to Bury St Edmunds . |