Example sentences of "who [was/were] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 2 | Back for Swansea are Mark Titley , Scott Gibbs and Simon Davies , who were at the Hong Kong Sevens with the Barbarians last week and missed the Schweppes Cup tie against Dunvant . |
| 3 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 4 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 5 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 6 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 7 | Harmsworth was one of many — others include Marconi and the pioneers of the film industry — who were at the forefront of what Briggs has called ‘ the development of the mass entertainment industry ’ at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | Well on the issue of what 's happening in the er Health Authority here , it 's a very much erm a surprise to everybody because those of us who were at the last meeting that we had , only a couple of months ago , to quite categorically saying that , she , that she was just not interested in the . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it was the most urbanized workers , those with the highest levels of skill , education and wages who were at the forefront of labour protest . |
| 10 | The legal charge was executed by the Hammonds , who were at the time transferees under a transfer executed by Mrs. Steed as attorney for the registered proprietor . |
| 11 | During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here . |
| 12 | There are still one or two people we 've got to see who were at the Muddington dance , notably a lad called Barry Taylor who has some explaining to do . |
| 13 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 14 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 15 | With a political prisoner escaped , all of us who were at the City of the Horizon must come under increased scrutiny . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Whilst Irvine , ’ he remarked , ‘ could have had his throat cut by any member of Queen Margaret 's household except for four ; you and I who were at the convent , and Catesby and Melford who were in Nottingham . |
| 17 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 18 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 19 | It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard . |
| 20 | No one who was at the Brewery Field ( perhaps not even the selectors ) would give twopence for their ability to do so . |
| 21 | A former editor of Izvestia , who was at the Central Committee plenum of 1964 which ‘ accepted ’ the resignation of his father-in-law on the grounds of age and health , Mr Adzhubey is perfectly placed to recall the ‘ stifling atmosphere ’ in the Politburo court at the time . |
| 22 | The celebrated preacher , Edward Irving ( 1792–1834 ) , who was at the height of his powers and still at peace with the Church of Scotland , had returned from London one Sabbath evening to preach once more to his own people . |
| 23 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 24 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 25 | Käthe Fischel , who was at the David Eder Farm in Kent throughout the harsh winter of 1939 , remembers : |
| 26 | Under the mop of curls his face , without the emphasizing make-up he wore perpetually on the train , looked younger and more ordinary : it was David Flynn who was at the races , not Zak . |
| 27 | Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school . |
| 28 | Princess Anne , who was at the helm of the boat she chose with his help , gazed back and told him simply : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Nearn , who was at the time sole concessionaire for the Seven , supplied the car used in the series . |
| 30 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |