Example sentences of "was not at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this labyrinth the Friar was not at a loss but strode on purposefully . |
| 2 | On this measure , in average terms , Britain was not at a disadvantage after 1967 since exchange rate adjustments compensated for higher costs [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 3 | However , the principle of Sunday trading was not at the heart of the judgment . |
| 4 | Because the local representative of Burra and Trondra was not at the February meeting , the matter was deferred until March , when again the councillor for the area failed to attend , resulting in yet another deferral . |
| 5 | But Dr Greenslade was not at the Easter Fete . |
| 6 | I was not at the bottom of a cliff but at the top , looking down across another dusty plain four hundred feet below . |
| 7 | This gave continuity to the English connection with India , but by the middle of the century India was not at the centre of English overseas activity . |
| 8 | Primaflora was not at the villa . |
| 9 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 10 | We now readily accept that Mr O'Connor was not at the theatre on the night in question and that no backstage ‘ bust-up ’ took place , as we had suggested . |
| 11 | But it was not at the button-hole that Leon was looking . |
| 12 | We arrived very late and , through some misunderstanding , Gilbert was not at the station to meet us . |
| 13 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |
| 14 | Burun was not at the head of the placings . |
| 15 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 16 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 17 | Another surprise of the evening was that Anne 's groom-to-be Commander Tim Laurence was not at the dinner . |
| 18 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 19 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 20 | Secondly , the machine was not at the time of the contract in a deliverable state , since it still had to be removed from the concrete emplacement . |
| 21 | Crawford was not at the hearing ; he was at the London Palladium , rehearsing for a Royal Variety Performance . |
| 22 | Norwich 's growth was not at the expense of its rural hinterland , however , for the surrounding villages grew as well . |
| 23 | Systematic strike breaking in Britain was not at an end . |
| 24 | ‘ I told you , I was n't at a party . |
| 25 | By the middle of the following week , however , she was really missing her trips to the pool and she decided that on Wednesday afternoon , which was one of the afternoons when David was n't at the factory , she would take a chance and go for a swim . |
| 26 | They they 've looked at erm housing and er industrial development , er I was n't at the discussion yesterday , but clearly they 've put a significant effort into deciding what the appropriate level of new industrial development is . |
| 27 | He was immediately enthralled : ‘ I do n't think there was a moment after that … when the wish to work at the House of Commons was n't at the back of my mind . ’ |
| 28 | He was n't at the house , but the housekeeper was . |
| 29 | I was n't at the conference , what a pity . |
| 30 | ’ Now he wanted to know why I was n't at the point . |