Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 2 | Interestingly , The Times reported at the time that not enough professional people served on juries , and that manual workers and the unemployed did not ‘ represent a cross section of society ’ made up by juries . |
| 3 | Our teenagers laughed at the suggestion that maybe dad could help . |
| 4 | The courts look at the effect that costs will have on that person 's financial position and decide on the facts whether severe financial hardship will be suffered . |
| 5 | Yet an uneasy feeling had been steadily growing among the ten thousand workers employed at the plant that the benefits which Clasper 's militancy had achieved were illusory . |
| 6 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 7 | The show 's organisers bristle at the charge that political engagement , the current fad in US contemporary art museums , is just another nod towards a new decade 's fashion . |
| 8 | This argument is untenable as some of the most dramatic changes in behaviour by American hospitals occurred at the time that the prospective payment system was introduced , when only 10% of hospitals were private , for profit institutions , and there is considerable evidence that , especially for rural hospitals in the United States , the threat has indeed been to survival . |
| 9 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 10 | Yet addiction specialists scoff at the notion that someone who already faces death through overdose or through contracting Aids from hypodermic needles is likely to change his behavour because of a drug test . |
| 11 | Labour MPs shouted at the end that it was an affront to democracy . |
| 12 | As Eric Fawcett recalls , ‘ It was a polymer so unlike the polymers known at the time that no one could envisage a use for it . |