Example sentences of "that at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No prizes can be offered for pointing out that at a given moment there are artists of several generations working and in very different ways . |
| 2 | IT IS IRONIC that at a time when the shares of motor traders are dropping like stones , the price at which dealerships change hands has remained steady . |
| 3 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 4 | Do you think that at a time like this I am afraid of words ? … if he dies tonight there will always be a gulf at my side , a gulf into which I must never fall ’ ( p. 87 ) . |
| 5 | And the good news is that at a time of recession there are bargains to be had : even grand dealers might discuss a discreet price reduction . |
| 6 | It is clear that at a meeting on July 4 between Lord Young and BAe , discussions included various tax benefits for Rover , to be achieved through the removal of the ring fence on tax losses and sympathetic revenue treatment . |
| 7 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 8 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 9 | In 1899 the Secretary could report that at a special election in the village of Barnton , near Northwich , to decide on whether the new school should be Church of England or ‘ unsectarian ’ the Council put up ‘ Progressive ’ candidates who won the election . |
| 10 | The Paris show demonstrated that at a much lower level delightful drawings by well known names can still be bought at a fraction of the price of a painting by the same artist . |
| 11 | More happily , a proposal that at a quick throw-in the ball could be thrown in any direction , other than forward , has not been agreed . |
| 12 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 13 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 14 | It is no good arguing , as privately , ministers may be doing , that at a time of recession these considerations are unimportant . |
| 15 | For it was one of the laws you couldna break , that at a love-carriage everybody must have his bellyful . ’ |
| 16 | It is striking that at a time when just about every other human value has been called in question , the value of life is still universally accepted as an absolute . |
| 17 | Even if it is likely that a Labour administration would have failed in the round to solve Britain 's fundamental problems , there is little doubt that at a minimum there would have been a substantial redistribution of income and some attempt to reform the City , regulate public utilities more strongly and determinedly tackle the homelessness problem . |
| 18 | His father 's library was open to him and we are told that his ‘ father set him very early to learn portions of the works of the best English poets by heart , so that at a very early age he could repeat large portions of Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser ’ . |
| 19 | Pity , then , that at a time when we need colour most — the grey winter months — these same containers , for the most part , are left to languish empty . |
| 20 | ‘ It is no surprise to anyone that at a time of severe recession , investment in fixed assets , cars etc , will be weak , ’ said Geoff Evans , managing director of Forward Asset Finance . |
| 21 | But he reveals that at a crisis meeting at Balmoral a deal was discussed between Charles , Diana , the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 22 | In the future , Suffolk people will reflect on this decade and they will find it strange that at a time when environmental issues were more prevalent than ever both county and borough councils made such an effort to be seen to be environmentally friendly , that so much development took place on the green belt of Ipswich . |
| 23 | Here we once more encounter the recognition that at a conceptual level the idea of history can not be taken further : rather it can only be addressed through a tension in the writing itself . |
| 24 | Its own research had shown that at a random check in 1940 just over a quarter of its audience had listened to ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ on the previous day . |
| 25 | And that at a time when , as was realised , the stakes were particularly high , when the country 's prospective self-sufficiency in oil would provide an incoming Government with a stronger economic base . |
| 26 | Phan Boi Chau ended his life wondering whether the Vietnamese people understood communism any more than he did himself ; but even if , in the 1920s , they did not , and if international communism at least did not understand the Vietnamese people all that well either , one could argue that at a time when the prospects for Vietnam were still fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution and even though , in 1924 , a government of the Left had taken office in France , the failure of a constitutional Party helped to turn political forces in Vietnam in the direction of a radical nationalism . |
| 27 | It seems that at a Sunday dance at the " El Greco " Bar , she expressed some sympathy towards the revolutionary movement and somebody overheard her . |
| 28 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
| 29 | In ordinary spoken discourse the endless cycle of encoding-decoding-encoding may be terminated by an action , as when for instance I say , ‘ The door is open ’ and you say , ‘ Do you mean you would like me to shut it ? ’ and I say , ‘ If you do n't mind ’ , and you shut the door , we may be satisfied that at a certain level my meaning has been understood . |
| 30 | It remains something of a surprise that at a time when conserving species diversity is valued so highly , so little priority is given to listing the basics of what species there are to be conserved or lost . |