Example sentences of "as the [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.

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1 Publicity was limited and , as the deadline approached at the end of 1987 , inaccurate rumours were rife about the exact meaning of the regulations .
2 He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side .
3 Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector .
4 The exclusion of votes for very small parties is responsible for another slight deviation : it means that — as the figures given at the beginning of this chapter showed — the other patties secure a percentage of seats marginally greater than their percentage of all the votes .
5 But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’
6 The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered .
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