Example sentences of "were at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He qualifies this using two examples of Caesar 's ‘ humanness ’ , the first of a day when it was cold and windy , an the river Tiber was rough and in flood , and Caesar and Cassius were at the shore , Caesar asked Cassius to swim across with him as a sort of dare , almost , and so Cassius did , followed by Caesar , and they battled across . |
| 2 | But women were less offended by the sight of a woman masturbating than men were at the sight of a man masturbating . |
| 3 | They were at the hatch . |
| 4 | 15% have plans underway , 10% said they were at the pilot stage and 11% are ‘ seriously considering ’ it — the other 56% have no open systems plans whatsoever . |
| 5 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 6 | Until the changes introduced by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Act ( HASSASSA ) 1983 were implemented in January 1984 , access arrangements to many children in care were at the discretion of the local authority , and not the subject of court scrutiny . |
| 7 | My little chair and table were at the King 's left elbow . |
| 8 | They were at the brandy stage when she said ; ‘ You know , you got all that sex psychology wrong , before . ’ |
| 9 | Soon we were at the village of Louth , which Gerry pronounced ‘ Lowth ’ . |
| 10 | Ironically , a few days earlier , when Simonsen heard that the Scottish team were at the hotel , she had told a friend it was an ideal opportunity to brush up on her English . |
| 11 | For the press the facilities were as basic as they were at the hotel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took her a moment or two to realise they were at the hotel . |
| 14 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |
| 15 | As the campaign enters the final furlong the Tories in the campaign team know they are no closer to finding a magic formula than they were at the outset . |
| 16 | It is therefore timely to consider what the impact of this mandatory scheme for school self-evaluation has been on the teachers , recalling what the stated intentions were at the outset : |
| 17 | When you were at the cinema . |
| 18 | Way back in 1960 when my husband and I were courting , we were at the cinema one evening watching the original screening of Psycho . |
| 19 | Seventy or eighty men were at the kill and most of them , like us , had heard the shooting from their homes and hurried over just in time . |
| 20 | These unfavourable contrasts were commonplace at the beginning of the decade and were at the heart of the centrist critique of two-party politics as then played . |
| 21 | Stinging , biting , their incessant attentions to warm-blooded creatures always raised the question as to their purpose — as if man 's comfort were at the heart of the purpose of creation . |
| 22 | These books speak of betrayal — of betrayal of the ideals of a public library system , of the system of higher education and the education of our teachers , and , at the highest level , of gifts and endowments and the historical integrity of collections that were at the heart of the country 's literary culture . |
| 23 | Greg Mackey — the Australian stand-off who turned down Hull 's contract offer last month to re-join Warrington — and Welsh scrum half Kevin Ellis were at the heart of the Wire 's classy , high speed football . |
| 24 | The structural changes which were at the heart of Big Bang necessitated a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework . |
| 25 | For many decades studies of rural land use and landscape were at the heart of all rural geographical work , and land use and landscape studies are still of intrinsic interest to many rural geographers . |
| 26 | However , we are concerned about the distinct lack of any clear recognition that the principles of environmental sustainability , which were at the heart of the White Paper , should underpin the future development of industry , commerce and small businesses . |
| 27 | The exclusion of certain clergy is less easy to justify ( a relic of the time when religious disputes were at the heart of national affairs ) , as is the exclusion of 18- to 20-year-olds : when the voting age was lowered in 1969 , the age of eligibility for candidature was not . |
| 28 | Anyway , we were at the top already . |
| 29 | They were at the top of the hill now , and by common consent they came to a standstill . |
| 30 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |