Example sentences of "[was/were] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the two purchases were at no stage legally conditional the one on the other , the obvious inference was that the family was interested in acquiring houses side by side . |
| 2 | Fortunately babuskas , or old ladies , were at every stop selling paper cones full of fresh berries and currants for one rouble . |
| 3 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 4 | The portolan dates from around 1635 when European whaling interests in Arctic waters were at a peak . |
| 5 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 6 | And there was an occasion when we were at a chapel anniversary service and Mother had to go on the platform to sing . |
| 7 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 8 | Well we were at a venture park on er Sunday and I reckon I probably did something on one of the rides without realizing it . |
| 9 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 10 | We were at a night out . |
| 11 | ‘ Look at you , you 'd think you were at a suspect 's house instead of your daughter 's bedroom . |
| 12 | He and I were at a lobby at the House of Commons yesterday , in er , celebration of the mobility allowance , which campaigned very successfully , and we , in the Community Transport field , have very close working relationships and communication . |
| 13 | FORMER England hockey captain Sandie Lister and teams of top county , national and international players were at a Suffolk school at the weekend to inaugurate its new £225,000 synthetic pitch . |
| 14 | All approaches to the Lakeside shopping centre at Thurrock , Essex , were at a standstill with six-mile jams on the M25 . |
| 15 | TRAINS were at a standstill yesterday , but traffic was flowing smoothly along a newly-opened section of dual carriageway . |
| 16 | Hong Kong 's great harbour , full of sunken vessels , was stagnant ; the docks were at a standstill ; so was public transport . |
| 17 | The pressure intensified and opium sales were at a standstill by 1838 when Lin Tse-hsu was appointed imperial commissioner in Canton . |
| 18 | However , enormous problems remained : inflation remained high , unemployment was rising and many areas of production were at a standstill . |
| 19 | Traffic out of Paris to the south-west was interrupted for about 90 minutes and trains in the southern Midi-Pyrenees region were at a standstill for seven hours . |
| 20 | But both Raquel and Freddie were at a celebration here last year to bless the marriage . |
| 21 | Then , as now , people were at a loss to help the whales back to deep water , and even more so when it came to explaining the phenomenon . |
| 22 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 23 | Military and government people were quickly absorbed into the war effort , but the churches were at a loss what to do with us . |
| 24 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 25 | Because they had arrived independently and in twos and threes they had outstripped their organizers and were at a loss what to do . |
| 26 | Far from being the aberration that many Gaullists thought — and that , for years after , they were at a loss to explain — the departure of 1946 was utterly consistent with de Gaulle 's conception of leadership . |
| 27 | Villagers were at a loss as to how to repair the frayed rope , or lanyard , as the flagpole is on the edge of the medieval church 's tower and is too dangerous to climb up to . |
| 28 | It was a reddish glow , moving unsteadily towards where we were at a height of about fifteen or sixteen feet . |
| 29 | When the celebrations were at a height the lady who had been rescued said she would present a piece of silver when she got back to England to the squadron and what would they like . |
| 30 | For us it was easier , we were at a conference . |