Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible . |
| 2 | Indeed , had you seen Ken white paper statement on television that night , you would see me sitting in the audience , smiling gently at the thought that I was about to leave the N H S. |
| 3 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 4 | Because firms have no discretion over prices but must passively accept the price prevailing in the market they have no ‘ market power ’ : they can make profits only at the level that justifies the continued employment of their assets in their existing use and are unable to effect a transfer of wealth from customers to themselves . |
| 5 | It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ . |
| 6 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 7 | And it was not only at the front that people were dying . |
| 8 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 9 | Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs ' legs . |
| 10 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 11 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 12 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 13 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 14 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 15 | That rap is snapping away at the threads that bind the hypocrisy of society is now an acknowledged fact . |
| 16 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 17 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 18 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 19 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 20 | There has got to be some genuine changes in our erm willingness to work hard at our family life and not to give in easily at the challenges that so often break our homes up . |
| 21 | He was still at the barriers that funnelled the mob into a line under the cynical eyes of a guard when she struggled up behind him . |
| 22 | Only Jack Lawrence appeared quite unmoved , glancing dispassionately at the damage that Kath revealed with her scissors . |
| 23 | She did not know as she smiled innocently at the flowers that behind the cigarette smoke was the cause of future sorrow in her life . |
| 24 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 25 | And er if you look also at the way that the stones fit together they 're ve they fit together very neatly on the aisle where by the small window whereas the central part of the church there 's much more mortar between the joints . |
| 26 | Robbie was ready for a rest and some food , and she groaned inwardly at the thought that Fen would undoubtedly expect her to prepare a meal before she could eat and sink into her bunk . |
| 27 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 28 | The Government would be well advised to look constructively and positively at the suggestion that there should be an ombudsman . |
| 29 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
| 30 | We will all look carefully at the conclusions that it draws from its work and from the evidence submitted to it . |