Example sentences of "[vb past] at [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 2 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 3 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
| 4 | While it is certainly necessary to chart shifts in women 's position in literature and society through history , it is crudely ahistorical to judge writers of the past exclusively through terms arrived at in the late twentieth century . |
| 5 | The conclusions arrived at in the brief analysis which follows have necessarily , therefore , to be seen as no more than tentative and hesitant deductions . |
| 6 | The answer is the one that we arrived at in the previous paragraph . |
| 7 | Non-sexism can only be a utopian or post-revolutionary state arrived at after the massive change in social relations and ideas demanded by an aggressive anti-sexist policy . |
| 8 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 9 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 10 | Nothing no I 've seen the bread coming out on a Monday morning warm and landed at from the big houses and that was before the days of the cooling of the bread . |
| 11 | It so happens that the descendants of the original Indians whose raft capsized were also in charge of another raft that capsized at about the same point in the river . |
| 12 | To our surprise and to many people 's relief , they all broke at about the same load , the strength of the wet and the dry ones being very much the same . |
| 13 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 14 | The textbook picture of the lower part of the Lower jurassic in England , looked at in the usual two-dimensional textbook way , along the outcrop , is of thinning over three axes with thicker basins of sedimentation in between ( figure 3.2a ) . |
| 15 | It shows how these different styles are likely to have a marked effect on the crime statistics collected by particular police forces , an issue we looked at in the previous chapter on criminal statistics . |
| 16 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 17 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |
| 18 | The other half ‘ with thee I am well pleased ’ comes from that picture of the Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah 42:1 which we looked at in the last chapter . |
| 19 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 20 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 21 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |
| 22 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |