Example sentences of "was [conj] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 2 | The worrying thing was that at no time did Leeds actually put together a great move which tore Sunderland apart . |
| 3 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 4 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 5 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |
| 6 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 7 | The result was that at the end of the decade British critics of the BFASS , few as they were , tried to draw together once again . |
| 8 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 9 | The outcome was that at the meeting on 18 November , the Cabinet : |
| 10 | He took the view that what mattered was whether at the stage when the prosecution wanted to discontinue , the judge thought there was a case fit for the jury to consider . |