Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 2 | She took one last glance at the window above to see Maria Luisa with her palms flat against the window-pane , desperately , mutely pleading with Ruth for help with eyes so full of pain that Ruth 's nerves nearly snapped . |
| 3 | A glance at the g-meter again revealed the problem : if your feet weigh three times what your muscles expect they will take more effort to move ! |
| 4 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 5 | A glance at the corner where the copper stood , then at the doorway behind me , where the light fell on the gleaming worktops and new cupboards . |
| 6 | As Agnese proceeded to steer her across the terrace , Ronni stole a glance at the spot where Guido had been . |
| 7 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 8 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 9 | United have got a strange side at the moment though |
| 10 | The legislative changes have given this a further momentum at a time when , says Mr Harrison , ‘ there is a greater awareness among fund managers that this is a growing sector ’ . |
| 11 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 12 | However , all these initiatives require heavy investment at a time when economies are squeezed by foreign debt repayments . |
| 13 | It amounted , they said , to a total alteration of the law of the land and the establishment of a permanent act of insolvency at a time when trade was embarrassed and credit had sunk to its lowest ebb . |
| 14 | We then left Gt Yarmouth for another attempt at a passage northward and found less wind but a nasty swell outside the harbour . |
| 15 | He appreciates a good attempt at an answer even if the final result is not " correct " . |
| 16 | The court has before it two appeals which raise the same point of law , that is to say , can a child who is born alive , but suffering from disabilities occasioned by negligence on the part of the proposed defendant at a time when the child was en ventre sa mère and unborn , maintain an action for damages for negligence against the defendant . |
| 17 | The character of the rocks , and their setting in the past geography at the time when they accumulated , diagnoses the climatic setting in which the extinct fauna lived , and climate imposes certain restraints on possible modes of life . |
| 18 | They had also made their social entrance at a time when television — so often blamed as another demoralising force — was only a minority pursuit in Britain , with no more than two million viewing licences in 1953 ; and when the commercial TV channel , which was most commonly alleged to be lowering standards , had not even been created . |
| 19 | Many factors will influence the timing of the offer including the following : ( 1 ) The offeror will not wish to announce a contested bid at a time when the target company is about to announce record results or a greatly increased dividend ; research on this possibility will be required . |
| 20 | That 's her car at the end though in n it ? |
| 21 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 22 | International Military Services , the British Government 's arms sales company , went ahead with a construction consultancy in the face of Foreign Office opposition at a time when exports of defence-related equipment to Iraq were banned . |
| 23 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 24 | Security forces in Northern Ireland are hunting a woman in black who set up a U D R soldier for murder at the garage where he worked . |
| 25 | So what does that mean with us doing with overtime at the moment then ? |
| 26 | The fund offers quick payments , while the alternative is much legal red tape at a moment when speed counts . |
| 27 | A workman was rescued by the fire brigade at the weekend when he became stuck on a hydraulic platform while working at the Seabird Hotel , The Front , Seaton Carew . |
| 28 | Hobhouse concerned himself directly with the evolution of mind at a time when the behaviourist dogma had not yet arrived to inhibit such a discussion . |
| 29 | So all that was really achieved then was Rachel 's temporary peace of mind at a time when she was n't well . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made . |