Example sentences of "[noun sg] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The milkman 's van was on the green ; Mrs Southworth from the Hall was at the pillar box , posting a letter . |
| 32 | For probably the first time since 1967 , homosexuality was at the forefront of public debate , resulting in moments of real visibility and intervention . |
| 33 | The concept of flexibility was at the centre of debates surrounding economic restructuring throughout the 1980s . |
| 34 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 35 | The issue was at the centre of the talks between the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and Badran during Hurd 's visit to Jordan on May 30-31 , 1990 . |
| 36 | This issue was at the heart of the Report of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( Cmnd 6453 ) published in 1976 . |
| 37 | He agreed that a regrettable lack of foresight was at the root of it , but he felt that there were extenuating circumstances , and he seemed resolved to do something about it , in so far as he could . |
| 38 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 39 | A soft fuzzy girl was at the till . |
| 40 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 41 | Once the team was at the gorge everyone pitched in to complete the task . |
| 42 | A false impression of this sort was at the heart of the London Fox property futures scandal . |
| 43 | One regular meeting place was at the Redeswire or Reidswire , close to the present Border crossing of Carter Bar . |
| 44 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 45 | But the swirling breeze was at the hunters ' backs , and the big bull suddenly lifted his muzzle to scent in their direction , and a moment later the whole herd was running towards the shelter of the trees . |
| 46 | The kitchen wing was at the back and to the side so the house was L-shaped ; and beyond the kitchen was a cobbled yard bounded by the stables , where they kept the cars . |
| 47 | If you ask me , jealousy was at the root of it . |
| 48 | Maybe the lad was at the bottom of the heap , but his spirit had not been broken . |
| 49 | The lad was at the disco one Friday evening , three or four weeks after Derek and his wife returned from Canada . |
| 50 | Salomea was at the Cadby Nursery when , at short notice , several refugee nurses took up the chance of emigrating to America . |
| 51 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 52 | Toshiba was at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall . |
| 53 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 54 | Another interesting twist to the evening was at the end of the show when the audience was invited to put questions to both performers whose answers to even the stupidest of enquiries were quick and funny with some excellent put-downs for those who dared to ask the wrong things . |
| 55 | First trade showing was at the Expofil exhibition in Paris . |
| 56 | Climbing up the pole was too dangerous as the pole was at the edge of the tower , he said . |
| 57 | His shop was at the sign of the Globe in Fleet Street . |
| 58 | The Oxford group was at the forefront of X-ray crystallography , a technique for deducing atomic architecture from the way X-rays are scattered . |
| 59 | Such generosity was at the expense of the Greek cities of the coast , and helps to explain why they revolted from Persia again in 479 ( Hdt. ix.105 , treating their adhesion to the new Delian League as a second ‘ Ionian Revolt ’ ) , as before in the Ionian Revolt of 499 . |
| 60 | Since the infant plaintiff was at the time of the accident en ventre sa mère she was not then a person or a human being in esse and in fact she had no separate existence apart from her mother . |