Example sentences of "[noun sg] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 2 | Second , Jones ' experiment was at the stage where its results were moving forward the fastest . |
| 3 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 4 | Her bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 5 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ’ Gharr was at the spaceport when I landed , and he stopped me tight away . |
| 8 | His official car was at the kerb . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You did n't cos the tape was at the beginning of the tape . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The revival of industry was at the heart of Mr Lamont 's Autumn Statement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the time of our first visit the construction of the large oil terminal was at the planning stage . |
| 15 | Humiliation was at the centre of Jock Stein 's disciplinary philosophy . |
| 16 | Cycling was at the centre of a number of social panics . |
| 17 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
| 18 | The Princess was at the unit to launch a new leaflet aimed at raising cash to pay for research into cures for paralysis . |
| 19 | There was a hill there , pretty steep , and the bar was at the bottom of it . |
| 20 | A constable was at the door to regulate the stream of people going into the chapel , and she was directed to the eastern gallery . |
| 21 | You went off a main road went down another road and the village was at the end of a road and that was the end of it . |
| 22 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 23 | An Indian girl in a blue sari was at the cash desk in Marianne Price 's place . |
| 24 | Duvall was at the double-doors leading to the secondary staircase . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 27 | Secondly , local accountability was at the centre of the arguments put forward for the community charge ( or poll tax ) and other reforms in local taxation . |
| 28 | In the random group management was at the attendant 's discretion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |