Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time . |
| 2 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be impracticable for the DoH at this stage to create a standing forum for residential care as whole . |
| 4 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 5 | Rising to the challenge , Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand at European Council meetings in April and June 1990 argued for , and won acceptance of , the need for a Political Union to complement EMU . |
| 6 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 7 | During its lifetime , both in peacetime and war ( e.g. WW II , Korea , the Falklands and latterly the Gulf ) the railway has carried hundreds of thousands of tons of stores and equipments internally for the RAOC for storage and issue , also to the REME at 34 Base Workshop for repair . |
| 8 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 9 | You have played far more contemporary music over the years than most people care to remember : a lot of Henze at one time , and more recently music through to Ligeti and Penderecki . |
| 10 | She stayed in the apartment of Wilhelm Rosenberg at 261 East Tenth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A. It is a street of tenements and railroad apartments and Rosenberg 's apartment was one of these . |
| 11 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 12 | Peter Snyman at Random Century says that a third South African lawyer telephoned him offering the autobiography ( he also says that his company never signed a contract with Ayob , though they did try to work out a deal ) . |
| 13 | Maybe the man had lived in Grantley at one time and now lived somewhere else ? |
| 14 | She wished she was anywhere but Grantley at this moment . |
| 15 | For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education . |
| 16 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 17 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 18 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 19 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 20 | As the US Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on 22 October 1951 : The security interests of the United States at this time would be greatly benefited if the British Commonwealth of Nations could achieve once more a state of political and military solidarity under strong and effective leadership by the United Kingdom ; failing this , wholehearted support of United States military policies must be obtained from the several members of the British Commonwealth through other means . |
| 21 | But the leaderships of the main factions consist almost entirely of sociologists and political scientists , all of whom have had to read Macchiavelli at one stage of their careers . |
| 22 | Shevardnadze at this point attempted to restrain the fighting , negotiating with Ardzinba by telephone . |
| 23 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 24 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 25 | Stage two , C.D.C. at departmental level , is scheduled for the Autumn . |
| 26 | Cumming had a fascination with most forms of transport , driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London . |
| 27 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 28 | In many ways the most valuable product of the Weald at this time was timber , much of which was exported as sawn wood and fuel . |
| 29 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 30 | I duly enrolled Sue at another dancing school . |