Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It found that at 5 July , 1991 , the Western Isles authority had suffered a total loss of more than £24 million because of the fall of the bank . |
| 2 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |
| 3 | Eye witnesses reported that at this time there were between six and 12 aircraft established on final and long final approach . |
| 4 | In this condition , and with much-increased fuel tankage , it could usually reach at least 30,000 feet , and on one occasion was taken up to 36,000 feet by George Burges — although he reported that at this height it was very unstable . |
| 5 | She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly . |
| 6 | On March 3 King Hassan announced that at some time prior to the legislative elections which were scheduled for Oct. 9 , 1992 , constitutional changes to establish a better balance between legislative and executive bodies would be put to a referendum . |
| 7 | Mr Sugar revealed that at one point one of his children had tried to persuade him to ‘ throw in the towel ’ . |
| 8 | Roy also revealed that at one stage they went to local paramilitaries to ask them to leave one young offender alone . |
| 9 | It was , however , argued that at common law and in equity rescission can only be granted if full restitution can be made by both parties . |
| 10 | He argued that at deeper levels of processing , more semantic encoding is performed . |
| 11 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 12 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 13 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |
| 14 | We assumed that at each hospital the same proportion of missing or inadequate records ( 317/5167=6.1% ) were cases of Alzheimer 's disease and estimated that about 43 cases of probable Alzheimer 's disease ( 6.1% of 707 ) were omitted because of lost or inadequate records . |
| 15 | The pilot assumed that at this point the aircraft had stalled , and he noted that the ailerons seemed ineffective as if ( he said ) they had become detached ( subsequent investigation proved this not to be the case ) . |
| 16 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 17 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 18 | It so happened that at that time , apparently unknown to the mother , the father had formed an association with another woman , and , as a result , had become the father of that other woman 's child . |
| 19 | In the course of his judgment , at p. 324c , Lord Donaldson M.R. stated that at one stage the plaintiffs made overtures to the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to his joining in these proceedings . |
| 20 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 21 | Yet with contradictory logic he claimed that at this level a contributory pension would stimulate retirement , since older people would withdraw from full-time work and would ‘ eke out ’ their pensions by |
| 22 | Fox and Waring [ 12 ] also showed that at low drug/DNA ratios the dissociation from calf thymus was characterised by two time constants with values of 86 s ( 32% ) and 1800 s ( 68% ) . |
| 23 | She reckoned that at this point , quite a few of them shed tears , but contrary to expectations there was apparently no Tiller flag hoisted or hymn sung . |
| 24 | The first element of need is erm the various estimates of commitments of potential land , erm and the argument is , erm , that the additional requirement can actually be met within the inner area , now we covered that at some length this morning , and refer to what we 've had said on that in a bit , I do n't propose to repeat it . |
| 25 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |
| 26 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 27 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 28 | I feared that at any moment I might fall and break my neck . |
| 29 | She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone . |
| 30 | However she thought that at that stage Miss T. was able to understand what was going on . |