Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] at that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 2 | Lord Herschell was angered by this idea and , says Professor Heuston , ‘ the High Court judges at that time , many of whom were Halsbury 's own appointments , were not on the whole notable for progressive views on social or industrial matters . ’ |
| 3 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 4 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |
| 5 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
| 6 | This appears to be an accurate assessment of the fact that although joining high speed roads almost always feels dangerous there had in fact been relatively few accidents recorded at that site in the three year period studied . |
| 7 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 8 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 10 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 11 | Most stony meteorites formed at that time as did the irons , which had already solidified from cores or pools of molten metal that lay within their small parent bodies . |
| 12 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 13 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 14 | Many of those who take Christmas jobs in retail stores are , it was suggested , married women who are explicitly seeking a short-term job to help meet the extra expenses incurred at that time of the year . |
| 15 | This process is repeated each time the highest-level index existing at that time requires a third or fourth track to be added . |
| 16 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 17 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 18 | There were three poor brothers living at that time who owned nothing in the world but one pear tree . |
| 19 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 20 | The reason behind the emphasis is an admission that not enough has been done to help the small , growing company and a belief that a key element in the failure of many growing enterprises to expand beyond a certain size is the lack of links with the right people to provide help in the major decisions faced at that stage . |
| 21 | We are introduced to both characters at the beginning of each book and as we find out more about them , it 's not that they are rude offensive children , it 's purely down to the innocence that all children have at that age . |
| 22 | That the project 's objectives took the form they did was partly due to the particular interests of those involved and partly to a knowledge of other experimental projects operating at that time . |
| 23 | just talk at you training and they reckon that after ten minutes look at that tern ! |
| 24 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
| 25 | ( b ) less than the difference between the total votes of the two or more continuing candidates credited at that stage of the count with the lowest recorded total number of votes and the candidate next above such candidates " . |
| 26 | An allegation that drugs are being supplied as a " liquid cash " to modify behaviour at a particular prison may point a sufficient finger at the medical officers working at that prison , even though they are not referred to by name . |
| 27 | With the British having more distance to cover at that time than any other nation , including the Americans : ‘ Cable enterprises supplanted the railways as popular investments ’ 2 . |
| 28 | The bleeding-time ratio increased to 1.33 ( SE 0.5 , p<0.001 ) after 15 min of inhaling 30 ppm NO. 30 min after the withdrawal of NO , the mean ratio had fallen to 1.14 ( SE 0.05 ) in the 3 volunteers monitored at that time . |
| 29 | It was expected that a similar equation would govern the proton , the only other supposedly elementary particle known at that time . |
| 30 | In 1970 New York City handed over the management of its clinics and hospitals ( accounting for about 20% of all general care discharges at that time ) to a new Health and Hospitals Corporation , with the purpose of freeing the management of the system from city bureaucracy , and enhancing its ability to raise revenue from Medicaid , Medicare , and private health insurance . |