Example sentences of "at this [noun sg] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another training officer at this firm was a married man , less extravagant and more self-disciplined than his counterpart , although lacking his flair . |
| 2 | Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans , and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down . |
| 3 | Nizan 's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration . |
| 4 | The information given to the development officers at this stage was the client 's name , main address , temporary address ( if any ) , date of birth , date of referral to the psychiatric service , date of domiciliary visit by the psychiatrist , diagnosis , score on the researcher 's organic brain syndrome scale , and whether consent for inclusion in the project had been obtained from the client , his or her next of kin , and his or her general practitioner ( or hospital doctor if temporarily in hospital ) . |
| 5 | The only thing bothering the Captain at this stage was the sort of Substitute Prosecutor he would get . |
| 6 | Bisecting the corridor at this point was a short passage leading to the two staircases which descended to either side of the house . |
| 7 | standing up at this end was a lot were you here when he went through all the old headlines of er |
| 8 | Also at this dinner was the writer Andrew Harvey , who wrote thee great travel book , A Journey in Ladakh . |
| 9 | Wedged neatly between his route flying at this period was a rescue operation to collect Gen Sikorski 's staff who were making their way to the South of France , hotly pursued by the Germans . |
| 10 | One of the points that distinguishes Green from many of the artists who made prints of the Lake District at this period was the fact that he was one of the few who prepared and drew on the plates and etched the images himself . |
| 11 | Comments on Churchill by some in London at this time were no more flattering . |
| 12 | They were making and altering machines for specific customers , and the people who were prepared to pay for improved , labour-saving , machines at this time were the owners of the factories . |
| 13 | Also on the agenda at this time were the elections for the local People 's Assembly and the imminent anniversary of the 1935 anti-Japanese student movement . |
| 14 | Almost unknown in the region at this time were the tiny freeholds conventionally linked with the proliferation of paupers , whether cottagers clinging to a precarious independence , or young men waiting to come into their patrimony . |
| 15 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 16 | The general lack of interest in antibiosis at this time was no doubt discouraging , but it did not prevent his former pupil Dubos from bringing tyrothricin to clinical trial . |
| 17 | As for the other main intruder into the parliamentary arena , the support for the SNP at this time was a more complex phenomenon . |
| 18 | Other fairy subjects followed , but his major work at this time was a large number of panels for Lord Foley 's house at 26 Grosvenor Square , for which he chose scenes from Tasso 's ‘ Jerusalem Delivered ’ and Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ . |
| 19 | The government seemed to be presiding over massive industrial contraction ; Mrs Thatcher at this time was the most unpopular Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain in 1939 . |
| 20 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 21 | What was astonishing in Prague at this time was the exceptional quality of all the arts , not merely architecture and painting , but the work of the stuccoists , woodcarvers , furniture-makers and glassworkers . |
| 22 | The fourth and final bay , beginning again from its western end up to the gangway , contained on its northern side , Tilt Van repairs , and on the southern side was Bill Swindell preparing windscreens for motor vehicles ; alongside at this time was the experimental area for the Wolverton-designed mechanical horse . |
| 23 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 24 | Much of the provision for the relief of the poor at this time was the benefactions of Londoners . |
| 25 | The event which affected Britain at this time was the fall from power of Magnentius . |
| 26 | With the exception of some thrusts into the Agenais , the primary sphere of acquisitive activity for the Albret at this time was the Bordelais and Bazadais . |
| 27 | Also controversial at Oxford at this time was the question whether man , being both body and soul , has both a corporeal and a spiritual form : Aquinas taught that in every corporeal being there is one substantial form . |
| 28 | These oligarchies were , however , powerful and one of the most significant developments in English urban history at this time was the way in which they consolidated their control over town government . |
| 29 | One of my most memorable experiences at this time was an outing organised by the magazine Studio International in october 1969 in which we toured the artists studios of the East End . |