Example sentences of "was [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This perilous situation was unrecognized at the French Supreme Headquarters , but was swiftly apparent to the watchful and questioning Lanrezac . |
| 2 | He and Hopkins met only once , but that was enough to cause an emotional crisis in Hopkins , who was upset at the unexpected depth of his feelings for him , even after he was drowned two years later at the age of nineteen . |
| 3 | Everything was rosy at the Red House , which Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Morris 's close friend and mentor described as ‘ more a poem than a house … but an admirable place to live in too , . |
| 4 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 5 | On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned . |
| 6 | When they went out to dinner ( for they were a ‘ top team , ! ) she was incredulous at the Great Gatsby look of the other diners — all middle-aged . |
| 7 | Phil Hanlon , director of health promotion with Greater Glasgow Health Board , said the medical profession was alarmed at the statistical trend . |
| 8 | The City was alarmed at the hefty slide into the red and a heavily reduced dividend payout and knocked 19p off the share price to 173p . |
| 9 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 10 | In 1930 , though , Eliot wrote to Dobrée that he thought order and authority dangerous catchwords and was horrified at the modern scorning of democracy ; he worried about the way national and racial characteristics were becoming contested issues . |
| 11 | Pope John was present at the general congregation on 7 December . |
| 12 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 13 | I have heard her voice and spoken to her lover and been walking with the Masai who was present at the farcical and tragic lion hunt . |
| 14 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 15 | Chest and abdominal computed tomography was performed every six months when lymph node or lung involvement was present at the initial staging . |
| 16 | A quick telephone call to Membray and a further last minute briefing confirmed that all was well at the other end . |
| 17 | The boy told his family last week he was unhappy at the special school he 's supposed to be studying at and planned to escape . |
| 18 | On 15 December 1806 John was married at the ancient parish church of St John the Baptist at Penistone , about a mile away from his new home , to a local girl named Mary Woodcock . |
| 19 | It was good at the fair , Mum . |
| 20 | Alexander was resident at the papal curia at the time of his election to Coventry in 1224 . |
| 21 | In common with other recipients of Western development aid , Indonesia was concerned at the possible diversion of resources by donors towards Eastern Europe , and the prospect of a strong regional economic organization was therefore attractive . |
| 22 | By then de Gaulle had left office and his successor , Georges Pompidou , was concerned at the growing strength and independence of West Germany , particularly because of Chancellor Willy Brandt 's Ostpolitik . |
| 23 | He was puzzled at the apparent change of topic . |
| 24 | That 's why it was handy at the primary school . |
| 25 | I was happy at the reported performance of the side before MOTD … |
| 26 | Thus Davy was happy at the Royal Institution to give series of lectures on agricultural chemistry , and to work on tanning as well as on potassium and chlorine . |
| 27 | Having read ( and heard ) so much about Delhi marriages , I was pleased at the very end of February actually to receive an invitation to one under the door . |
| 28 | No-one was available at the Saudi Embassy in London to comment on the case . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll do that — later , ’ she replied , keeping her voice calm while checking to make sure the camping area was available at the required period . |
| 30 | It must be a last resort in the sense that all else must first have been comprehensively considered and rejected — never because no other placement was available at the relevant time , because of inadequacies in staffing , because the child is simply being a nuisance or runs away from his accommodation and is not likely to suffer significant harm in doing so , and never as a form of punishment . |