Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three groups of hamsters increased their body weights at the same rate during the study and there were no differences in final mean body weights between the groups . |
| 2 | Two subjects at the same level in the hierarchy ( for example , both subdivisions of the same parent or superordinate subject ) are said to be coordinate . |
| 3 | Churchill inspired but also unnerved his listeners at the same time by painting the prospects of the armed struggle in darker and more dramatic tones than might seem necessary or desirable . |
| 4 | Using conditional probability theory they suggest that the accuracy of maps resulting from overlay analysis is determined by the number of map layers , their accuracy and the coincidence of errors at the same position in several map layers . |
| 5 | See , the whole trick with Hawaiian music is the mixing of the chords : everybody might be in C , but everybody is tuned differently , so instead of always playing the same damn intervals at the same point on the instrument , you have this wonderful overlap that spreads the feeling of the key out into kind of a pre-'60s sort of an effect . |
| 6 | TWO young golf partners hit holes-in-one at the same hole on the same round . |
| 7 | Entry into the EC challenged parliamentary sovereignty ; the growth of direct action and extra-parliamentary politics in Northern Ireland and on the mainland challenged the rule of law and the stability of the liberal-democratic state ; the ups-and-downs of nationalism in Wales and Scotland challenged the unitary state and threatened the break-up of Britain ; the use of referenda [ popular and direct votes on issues ] revealed the crumbling legitimacy attaching to the indirect democracy of voting for people to parliament ; the conventions underpinning cabinet government were buffeted by a trend to " open government " that weakened collective responsibility and Cabinet solidarity ; and developments within the Labour Party have had constitutional implications at the self-same time as the Liberals and SDP have sought to imprint themselves directly onto the British constitution with proposals for radical constitutional change including proportional representation . |
| 8 | But he had longings at the same time for the Mediterranean and travelled there . |
| 9 | All local four-vectors at the same event in space–time can be expressed in terms of the same set of basis vectors . |
| 10 | But in the 1340s Edward sought to exploit the growing opposition within France to Philip VI by deploying two or three armies at the same time in provinces where the English cause might expect to receive support . |
| 11 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |
| 12 | Taylor found that a kangaroo hops at the same frequency at which gazelles of equal weight run or , for that matter , at which humans of equal weight bound on a pogo stick . |
| 13 | The internal layout is similar to the Mk1 with two lavatories at the same end of the vehicle . |
| 14 | Liam thought it would be best to join the Irish passengers at the latter port of call . |
| 15 | The mean velocity , for example , is the same at all points at the same distance from the axis , but varies with this distance . |
| 16 | It is usually recognised by the presence of large numbers of larvae at the same stage of development in animals withheld from infection for a period longer than that required to reach that particular larval stage . |
| 17 | You will therefore be put in the position of paying two mortgages at the same time for a short period . |
| 18 | Assume there are only two artists and two years ; the first sells five drawings for £1,000 each in year one , and two drawings at the same price in year two . |
| 19 | Under such an arrangement ( known as an open offer and clawback ) underwriters agree to purchase the requisite number of consideration shares from accepting shareholders at the agreed price , to the extent that the latter elect to receive cash , subject to the right of the bidder 's shareholders to buy such shares at the same price in priority to the underwriters . |
| 20 | The couples were offered alternative Churches at the same time on the same day as that which they 'd planned . |
| 21 | Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X. |