Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 3 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 4 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 5 | He also noted how photographs could contain details the photographer had not observed at the time that the lens was focused and the exposure was made . |
| 6 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 7 | David Stubbs 's metaphor for the Butthole sound pleases me immensely , for he has unwittingly and uncannily arrived at the image that haunts Bataille 's writing . |
| 8 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 9 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 10 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 11 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 12 | It was also agreed at the summit that Peru should receive US$40,000,000 in aid from the other four Pact members to help it regain access to international credit lines . |
| 13 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 14 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 15 | Everyone had gone except this boorish man and his sleazy dirty place , and the poor old decrepit cleaner , who did n't seem particularly dismayed at the sight that greeted their eyes when they went into the room where the reception had been held . |
| 16 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 17 | Firstly , it seems to have been well established at the time that Darrel was having some sort of incestuous relationship with his sister , a woman several years younger but only slightly less wayward than her brother . |
| 18 | It is a rather less than fair criticism sometimes levelled at the judiciary that judges approach legislation with the pedantic eye of a grammarian and , indeed , sometimes with an almost perverse delight in defeating legislative intentions . |