Example sentences of "at one [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 2 | At one extreme was the highly capitalized and specialized agricultural industry of Denmark , and at the other the huge latifundia of Andalusia or south Italy , with their poverty-stricken swarms of landless peasants working for day wages when they could . |
| 3 | The problem , neatly summarized by Blackaby ( 1980 ) , was that Britain 's collective bargaining structure lay betwixt and between two polar extremes : at one extreme was the highly centralized system which was prevalent in some countries of continental Europe ; at the other extreme was the model of atomistic competition in labour markets which appeared to feature only in textbooks . |
| 4 | At one extreme was an electroplating plant where management took the view that operators were unintelligent and unreliable . |
| 5 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 6 | At one end was a compartment for the two armed guards who always travelled with a consignment of this kind , and in the partition between their compartment and the portion where the bullion was stored , there were portholes , or bull 's eyes , of stout glass , so that the interior was always under their view . |
| 7 | At one end was a bed — a double bed , I noticed — and a huge wardrobe ; at the other , a closed door led through into what must have been a very small room , a dressing-room perhaps . |
| 8 | At one end was an altar ; and to the side a group of statuary of the Holy Family , on the other stood a plaster saint arrayed in a brown habit . |
| 9 | He was assistant clerk of the course at Ascot , and at one stage was the racing correspondent of the London Evening Standard . |
| 10 | At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats , all covered in purple or gold cloth . |