Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 2 | The notion that clerical wealth was at the disposal of the realm when need arose was echoed and supported by some other developments of the reign : the practice whereby donations of land to the church first required royal licence ( and at a price ) ; the growing , though still limited , legal procedure and principle whereby endowments whose purposes were neglected by the receiving clergy could be recovered by the donor ; the practice of founders and patrons ‘ resuming ’ possession of the lands of religious houses embarrassed by debts ( not least debts resulting from taxation ) until they could again operate effectively ; the seizure of alien priories ; and lastly , the widening definition of temporalities at the expense of spiritualities . |
| 3 | He brought one arm around expansively , and the wooden bunk was at the end of it . |
| 4 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 5 | Its public premiere was at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , on 19 May 1947 , first night of a tour which also brought the company a change of name , to Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 6 | Popular power was at the heart of their vision of a new political and social order . |
| 7 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 8 | So far as the original Gramophone Company was concerned , dark green was at the bottom of the pecking-order , although in Britain such records carried a different trade-name , Zonophone . |
| 9 | Forget the Cup Final … the real fun was at the play-offs . |
| 10 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 11 | It was felt that central government was at the core of many of the problems , but also to be considered was the mis-management of the NIHE Board and their failure to properly consult and allow the full participation of the tenants themselves , who more often than not are the best experts needed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From the first bars of Mozart 's ‘ Hunt ’ Quartet it was obvious that their effortlessly fluent and natural playing was at the service of artistic integrity . |
| 14 | A soft fuzzy girl was at the till . |
| 15 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 16 | Rumour had it that an unhappy love-affair was at the root of her unpleasant nature . |
| 17 | This tense relationship between bourgeois careerism and communist party political commitment was at the root of the accusation that during this period Nizan had not entirely succeeded in severing his links with his bourgeois past . |
| 18 | We have already had reference this morning to the outcry against the handling of , of the mine closures and it was immense , the case was made by the Parliamentary Success er Select Committee for some serious thinking about energy policy for the future , yet the government did not think again , the political debate was at the level of whether Mr Heseltine would remain in power and nothing was changed . |
| 19 | His first general managership was at the Frankfurt Plaza for Canadian Pacific and he moved to the Regent Hotels in 1982 to run the Melbourne property . |
| 20 | Stok 's temporary office was at the end of a long corridor lined with dusty panes of glass that almost permitted you to see beyond them into the honeycomb of bureaucracy . |
| 21 | During the years when the elephant jibe was rife , microbial genetics was at the forefront of molecular biology . |
| 22 | They range from the impressive Eric Jones-Evans and Alan Tagg collections to a small but exquisite ( and previously unknown ) portrait of Ellen Terry , painted when this legendary actress was at the start of her career in Bristol and presented to the Collection by the artist 's granddaughter . |
| 23 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 24 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 25 | Before 1952 the only alphabetical index was at the end of the volume . |
| 26 | An Indian girl in a blue sari was at the cash desk in Marianne Price 's place . |
| 27 | Lowell 's behaviour — at times almost paranoid — was beginning to have a pattern , and the photograph of the other woman was at the centre of it . |
| 28 | The new flat was at the top of a tall house in Bloomsbury , round the back of the British Museum . |
| 29 | ‘ Then her own young man was at the front . |
| 30 | A dirty looking young man was at the wheel . |