Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tear slowly rolled down his grandfather 's face , but still his eyes gazed at a point miles and miles away . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An early train from Minya left us at Roda , a country station where old taxis and barouches waited at a crossroads for fares . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | August 24 : Cannabis plants discovered at a house in Rugby Avenue , Bangor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house . |
| 13 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two girls sat at a table . |
| 18 | Three women in nylon overalls sat at a table eating the food they had prepared for the canteen lunch . |
| 19 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 20 | Three or four pupils danced at a distance of thirty or forty yards and occasionally sprang forward to catch the ball . |
| 21 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
| 22 | The bad news is that there were two hundred and thirteen thousand pounds ' worth of non- recurring income items to reach that and this means that the Association 's routine activities ran at a deficit of twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts . |
| 23 | Rhyming letters occurred at a frequency of 1 in 6 . |
| 24 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 25 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 26 | Sidacai looked at a chair which had been placed by the window , but he made no move to sit down . |
| 27 | As a stunt Sutton and thirty others queued at a bus stop , got on the bus , and changed into home-made ‘ Lord Denning ’ gowns , complete with wigs made out of carpet tiles . |
| 28 | Second , we examined bcl-2- transfected and untransfected parental ( pt ) and cells for their rates of oxygen consumption ( as previously described ) and found that the and /bcl-2 cells respired at a rate less than 3% of that of the pt cells . |
| 29 | The watching nomes gazed at a pack of sandwiches bigger than they were , and a Thermos flask that steamed when it was opened and filled the hut with the smell of soup . |
| 30 | Interviews for the jobs started at a Belfast hotel last Thursday and will continue until tomorrow . |