Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 32 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 33 | About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes and the business travel industry is growing at twice the speed of tourism . |
| 34 | Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region . |
| 35 | Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income . |
| 36 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
| 37 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 38 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 39 | Despite the widespread ageism which exists at both the individual and structural level , there remains widespread social ignorance and denial of its impact . |
| 40 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 41 | There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms . |
| 42 | It was an unsystematic syncretism which was particularly successful in Italy ( Etruria and Rome ) , left its mark on Garthage , Syria and Egypt , was unsuccessful in Judaea , rather insignificant in Mesopotamla , and affected at least the iconography , if not the substance , of Indian religion through Gandhara art . |
| 43 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 44 | A $150m venture with Kokusai Denshin Denwa , Japan 's biggest international telecoms carrier , Singapore Telecom and others , WorldSource is aiming at precisely the market coveted by BT . |
| 45 | The lens forms at precisely the spot where the outgrowth of the eye , in the form of an eyecup , approaches the surface . |
| 46 | With regard to the first lies my group has come to the conclusion that there is a way in which the employment development budget can be augmented to specifically reserve at least the part of the current posish provision provided by the cooperative development erm we stand by our opinion that there are ways in which that service can be more efficiently administered that this is a sensible way forward . |
| 47 | A linguistic item must in general have at least the complexity of a simple sentence to show such properties . |
| 48 | And referee trying to prize them apart , to keep at least the pretence of a fight going . |
| 49 | It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties . |
| 50 | It was reported on March 1 that , although the construction of the tunnel was behind schedule , geological problems relating to the chalk seabed had now been overcome , and digging was now advancing at twice the speed of a year earlier . |
| 51 | In February 1990 more secret files were found at both the Defence and Justice Ministries . |
| 52 | They envisaged the aircraft as having at least the capacity of the Dakota , but the robustness and short take-off and landing ( STOL ) capabilities of their DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter . |
| 53 | It may well take at least the lifetime of a Parliament to put things right , but Labour will start immediately . |
| 54 | They sat on the balcony in the sun , depressed at both the break-in and the delay it would cause . |
| 55 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 56 | And Mary was to arrive at precisely the time when the reformers were beginning to add a new dimension to Scottish self-perception . |
| 57 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 58 | A wall-hung basin , which is held in place by secure wall brackets , can be fixed at exactly the height you want , although the supply and waste pipes will be exposed . |
| 59 | With regard to husbands voting as proxy for their wives , the government had wanted at least the wife 's written authorization to be necessary , but the deputies voted to retain the existing stipulation that the proxy voter must present the family registration book . |
| 60 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |