Example sentences of "[verb] at the height [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has won the Tories a fourth consecutive term — unprecedented , won at the height of a recession — unprecedented too , and delivered the coup de grace to socialism . |
| 2 | She describes the incident that sparked off , or at least increased , her concern about the content of contemporary television programmes , as happening at the height of the Honest to God debate . |
| 3 | Hopes of an improvement under Churchill were qualified by the determination to prevent any return to the virtual parity which he had enjoyed at the height of his wartime partnership with Roosevelt . |
| 4 | For most Arabs , the original betrayal occurred at the height of the First World War , when the allied powers made conflicting promises to each other , as well as to the Jews and Arabs . |
| 5 | Numerous Cabinet changes occurred at the height of the political unrest in Nepal in late March and April 1990 [ see p. 37362 ] . |
| 6 | This 19th of Cherubini 's 34 operas was conceived and written at the height of the Revolutionary Reign of Terror . |
| 7 | This 19th of Cherubini 's 34 operas was conceived and written at the height of the Revolutionary Reign of Terror . |
| 8 | Paradise is the work of a passionate activist , written at the height of the struggle to win recognition of the disaster from the Japanese establishment and even people in Minamata itself . |
| 9 | By a curious twist of fate , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , Nizan 's account of his own journey to a third world colonial country in 1926–27 , a journey which Sartre pinpoints as the moment when their student friendship began to end , was written at the height of a momentous third-world revolutionary struggle . |
| 10 | He was to pay tribute to Kingsmill after his death in an exchange of letters with Malcolm Muggeridge , published as About Kingsmill ( 1951 ) , and recalled what had been the deepest friendship of his life between the lines of Johnson and Boswell ( 1958 ) , the last book written at the height of his powers . |
| 11 | Barnham was built at the height of the period 's fairly short ascendancy , when these swooping gables were laid on top of the English traditional style , bringing a strong flavour of Amsterdam to the village . |
| 12 | Pakistan objected to his remarks about ‘ cheating ’ , made at the height of the Mike Gatting/Shakoor Rana affair five years ago and ICC secretary Colonel John Stephenson said : ‘ I 'm afraid Tom pressed the self-destruction button by making those comments . |
| 13 | His pendant , made at the height of the movement in 1900 , is finely enamelled with prickly leafed plants highlighted with rose diamonds and hung with pearls . |
| 14 | It was said at the height of his fame that Bob was giving a living to ten Jamaicans . |
| 15 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |
| 16 | Look at the height of the water now . ’ |
| 17 | big dinosaurs so I 'd like to show you just how big their faces were because look at the height of that ostrich . |
| 18 | Pedigree unknown , she was born at the height of last February 's blizzards in The Bullring — centre of London 's homeless community . |
| 19 | Set at the height of Victoria 's rule , the story revolves around three Oxford undergraduates who have nothing better to do than court young females , have parties and be awfully brassic . |
| 20 | The men worked steadily on , taking long breaks at the height of the day . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , as already suggested , wages did not decrease at the height of the slump of 1929 to 1933 at anything like the level of reductions which occurred in the early 1920s and some type of stability and balance was being established . |
| 22 | In late July 1989 Saudi Arabia and the United States opened secret talks to extend the life of a floating military base in the Gulf established at the height of the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 23 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 24 | Six years ago we successfully brought about a European-wide ban on the bulk trade in tortoises where the UK alone was importing at the height of the trade 250,000 a year of which 80 per cent were dead within two years . |
| 25 | Other unusual works by Carel Weight were executed at the height of the London blitz , and recorded events which showed how civilians were often more at risk than the forces . |
| 26 | Other unusual works by Carel Weight were executed at the height of the London blitz , and recorded events which showed how civilians were often more at risk than the forces . |
| 27 | Everett , about 30 miles north of Seattle , has a not-quite-finished ‘ home port ’ , one of several relatively small bases started at the height of the defence build-up of the Reagan years . |
| 28 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 29 | Nicu Ceausescu 's elder brother Valentin Ceausescu and his sister Zoia Ceausescu , both of whom had held senior academic posts , had likewise been detained at the height of the revolution , but were released during August . |
| 30 | When Hornby died at the height of his company 's success , the annual output of his factories totalled millions of Meccano sets , Hornby trains , and Dinky toys , which had become household names throughout the world . |