Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less commonly known , but equally polished , are the performances of Patrouille de France and Frecce Tricolori at some of our larger air displays . |
| 2 | It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time . |
| 3 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 4 | I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It would be impracticable for the DoH at this stage to create a standing forum for residential care as whole . |
| 6 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 7 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 8 | She do n't look like Marie at all . |
| 9 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 10 | It made her very uneasy having hir in the same building as Ari at such a dangerous and important time . |
| 11 | She wished she was anywhere but Grantley at this moment . |
| 12 | Then , because he said he 'd missed the train — although there was still ten minutes to go — I thought he was n't at Paddington at all : I thought Kemp was probably in Oxford . |
| 13 | For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education . |
| 14 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 15 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 16 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 17 | As the US Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on 22 October 1951 : The security interests of the United States at this time would be greatly benefited if the British Commonwealth of Nations could achieve once more a state of political and military solidarity under strong and effective leadership by the United Kingdom ; failing this , wholehearted support of United States military policies must be obtained from the several members of the British Commonwealth through other means . |
| 18 | We do n't need to go through Cherbourg at all . |
| 19 | Shevardnadze at this point attempted to restrain the fighting , negotiating with Ardzinba by telephone . |
| 20 | ‘ The oddest thing was that he seemed to have no interest in Mandela at all . |
| 21 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 22 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 23 | The woman looked down on them for a moment ; not seeming to see Lucy at all , she was looking at Josie . |
| 24 | Which was of no damned use to Lucy at all , and so she prompted , ‘ She actually said she was going home ? |
| 25 | Remember , though , that since the valetudinarian English gave Pau up the climate has reverted to what it was , so you need to be there on a day of reasonable weather , otherwise the Boulevard will not be tea Pyrénées at all , but only of the closer and less pleasing scene . |
| 26 | In Lisbon at that precise moment Walter Schellenberg was climbing the steep cobbled alley in Alfama towards the Lights of Lisbon . |
| 27 | ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’ |
| 28 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 29 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 30 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |