Example sentences of "were [adv] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a broader sense , de Gaulle 's attitudes towards Germany and towards the empire ( which he wanted to see reconstituted in a reformed imperial federation ) were fundamentally at odds with the dynamics of the postwar world . |
| 2 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 3 | Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine . |
| 5 | This information could be used to help practitioners — such as doctors and social workers — predict which children were most at risk from abuse , or further abuse , and target their intervention in the appropriate places . |
| 6 | At a time when forces were inexorably at work in Britain itself to produce the bureaucratic form of government we know today , there flourished in the empire a governing ethos which , with its emphasis on character rather than training in its practitioners , its primitive notions of justice , its exaltation of the autonomous agent unhindered by outside control , its demand for loving awe from the governed , was unmistakably the product of an earlier age . |
| 7 | He attracted children and men , but women were less at ease with him . |
| 8 | ‘ We were together at Liverpool for seven years . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , the government became increasingly divided in 1947 on a range of issues , and it was the Communists who were usually at odds with their coalition partners . |
| 10 | But keep track he had to , for the sects were always at odds with each other and sometimes their differences spilled over into killings . |
| 11 | Most families , especially the young and old , were always at risk from hypothermia in the winter . |
| 12 | By the early to mid-nineteenth century , many of the realities of life were totally at odds with the prescribed system of rule . |
| 13 | They challenged Leakey 's conclusions because these conclusions were totally at variance with their own firm beliefs , to wit modern man is directly descended from Australopithecus . |
| 14 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 15 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 16 | Young people , black people and men were more at risk from burglary , particularly if they lived in the Mildmay area For theft from the person , women are in general more at risk than men , blacks are more likely to be victimised than whites and the risk of victimisation decreases with age . |
| 17 | — A National Radiological Protection Board report published on Tuesday said there was no clear evidence to suggest people exposed to electromagnetic fields were more at risk from cancer . |
| 18 | Some were still at school during the early 1980s when British manufacturing industry was being decimated and the service industries ' star began to rise . |
| 19 | Lord Tebbit said ingenious minds were still at work on the treaty . |
| 20 | Matchmakers were still at work in the countryside . |
| 21 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |
| 22 | In Ipswich 12 people were still at home in the action sample , three of them with considerable support from the project . |
| 23 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 24 | Joseph Gamgee says that Vial 's measurements were thoroughly at variance with the skeleton as he knew it . |
| 25 | However , even before war broke out , the regime 's propaganda experts were also at work on that strand of Hitler 's image . |
| 26 | Other forms of seduction were also at work on him as it happens , and on I October of the year of his arrival in the village he married Edith Mason , youngest daughter of Henry Rice Mason of Godmanchester , Hunts. , a cabinet-maker . |
| 27 | Those Nonjurors who remained committed to a Jacobite restoration were often at odds with St Germain , being both anti-French and anti-Catholic . |
| 28 | Attitudes , especially among new senior staff , were often at variance with the council 's stated philosophy towards under fives generally and towards integration in particular . |
| 29 | They had no need to empty their minds of conventional images in order to build a purer system of thought , but instead they were perfectly at home with the conventional . |
| 30 | It is important to emphasize that the policy statements of the CDP disguised serious conflicts of opinion at crucial moments amongst the polytechnic directors , but also were frequently at variance with the views of the principals of the colleges of higher education and other institutions , and with the sentiments of the academic boards or staff of the polytechnics . |