Example sentences of "[noun] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 2 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 3 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 4 | Second , Jones ' experiment was at the stage where its results were moving forward the fastest . |
| 5 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 6 | Her bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 7 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 8 | Not less important , Kunaev was at the centre of an elaborate network of patronage and corruption which was clearly threatened by the imposition of an ethnic and political outsider . |
| 9 | Barr was at the CIA from 1973 to 1977 when Bush himself was director , and served on the White House domestic policy staff when Bush was Vice-President . |
| 10 | Nokia was at the Imagination Gallery off Tottenham Court Road . |
| 11 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 12 | ACTOR John Travolta was at the centre of a mid-air mystery last night . |
| 13 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 14 | ’ Gharr was at the spaceport when I landed , and he stopped me tight away . |
| 15 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 16 | At 8.30 , the cyclist was arriving at the finish , the motorbike had arrived 5 mins before ( but note , no time had been taken in finding a parking place , which would normally be the case ) ; the car was at the Morrison St — Lothian Road junction , and the bus had taken ten minutes to reach George IV Bridge , less than a mile . |
| 17 | You did n't cos the tape was at the beginning of the tape . |
| 18 | Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges . |
| 19 | NICK FALDO was at the centre of a heated row as he surrendered the lead in the $1.65 million Sun City Challenge in South Africa yesterday . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The revival of industry was at the heart of Mr Lamont 's Autumn Statement . |
| 22 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 23 | At the time of our first visit the construction of the large oil terminal was at the planning stage . |
| 24 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 25 | Cycling was at the centre of a number of social panics . |
| 26 | Various other reports suggest that Wise was at the mill up to 1890 . |
| 27 | Hugh was at the Milton sit-in , where the workers won a fight to stop compulsory redundancies but lost the war . |
| 28 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
| 29 | The Princess was at the unit to launch a new leaflet aimed at raising cash to pay for research into cures for paralysis . |
| 30 | There was a hill there , pretty steep , and the bar was at the bottom of it . |