Example sentences of "[was/were] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 2 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 3 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 4 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 5 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 6 | And the galleries that ran before successive doors , were at all seasons places of free air ; and in the summer season were places of mirth and glee , and active happy industry . |
| 7 | He fancied being seen with two women who were at each other 's throats . |
| 8 | At the end The Bangles — Hoffs , Michael Steele and sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson — were at each other 's throats , fighting , swearing and sending each other sheep 's heads in the mail . |
| 9 | Its leaders were at each other 's throats . |
| 10 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |
| 11 | The militant socialist minorities were at each other 's throats and were completely disillusioned with the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 13 | The enclosed area for the contests was a rectangle 650 feet by 250 feet , surrounded by a low wooden palisade ; a wooden barrier , 5½ feet high and 300 feet long was erected down the middle for jousting ; and the ring posts for lance targets were at each end . |
| 14 | ‘ You were at that factory by nine o'clock , were n't you ? |
| 15 | But , as Oliver has already challenged their whereabouts on the evening Sabine was killed , I will say this : on that evening the Josephs were at that man 's house . |
| 16 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 17 | They were at that stage of going out that was n't yet a Relationship . |
| 18 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 19 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 20 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 21 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 22 | Martin Martin ( 1703 ) who wrote his well-documented Description of the Western Islands of Scotland has left a wide and varied record of many of the plant uses which were at that time extant . |
| 23 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 24 | The first GCE O and A level examinations were held in 1951 ( S levels were at that time an essential part of the system as well , since on them depended the award of State scholarships to university candidates , before the days of Mandatory awards ) . |
| 25 | There seems to be no doubt , therefore , that Yugoslav trade values are ( or at least were at that time ) underreported in terms of dollars , and that the difference was especially large in the case of Yugoslav imports . |
| 26 | The deaf of Glasgow were at that time extremely fortunate to have in William Agnew a most intelligent and capable man , an artist in his leisure time , who through his hobby had come into contact with Queen Victoria and who enjoyed a friendship with Lord and Lady Blythswood ( Glasgow Deaf and Dumb F.C . |
| 27 | The transmitters were at that time a completely sealed unit resembling a marble both in size and appearance . |
| 28 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 29 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 30 | The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight ( BBMF ) were at that time based at Coltishall , Norfolk . |