Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 2 | A tear slowly rolled down his grandfather 's face , but still his eyes gazed at a point miles and miles away . |
| 3 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 4 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 5 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 6 | In any event , you would do well to strive to avoid the uncertainty of a dispute about the legal effect of words said at a time when tempers flare . |
| 7 | An early train from Minya left us at Roda , a country station where old taxis and barouches waited at a crossroads for fares . |
| 8 | Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art . |
| 9 | A woman in the Northeast involved in a campaign to improve colliery houses arrived at a lodge meeting with material on the houses for the members . |
| 10 | August 24 : Cannabis plants discovered at a house in Rugby Avenue , Bangor . |
| 11 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 12 | For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind . |
| 13 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 14 | In other areas where similar changes occurred at a slightly later date , the rise of mass material culture and retailing was the subject of some incisive commentary . |
| 15 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 16 | The first machines looked at a few dozen positions a second ; the more recent , 1200–1500 a second . |
| 17 | Paintings of angels with guns appeared at a time when the religious orders were confronted with the stubborn persistence of pre-conquest religion amongst their Indian charges . |
| 18 | Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia . |
| 19 | Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes . |
| 20 | The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house . |
| 21 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 22 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 23 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 24 | Delighted civic leaders said at a champagne celebration in the city that the decision was a vital boost to Manchester 's challenge to stage the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 25 | Two girls sat at a table . |
| 26 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 27 | Three women in nylon overalls sat at a table eating the food they had prepared for the canteen lunch . |
| 28 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 29 | They had hardly digested the import of what they had seen when still more flames appeared at a third window . |
| 30 | Three or four pupils danced at a distance of thirty or forty yards and occasionally sprang forward to catch the ball . |