Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 2 | The second finding looks at the impact that CNN has had on the viewing of news . |
| 3 | Thus Gandalf says at the start that the Ring will ‘ possess ’ and ‘ devour ’ any creature who uses it , while Elrond later goes further and says ‘ The very desire of it corrupts the heart ’ ( I , 281 ) . |
| 4 | However , the weakness of setting out to find a compromise is that each side assumes at the start that its own view is the one to be preferred . |
| 5 | The breach occurs at the moment that the act causes the harm . |
| 6 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 7 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 8 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 9 | One of the boys , now adult , tells me that even today he shivers at the thought that is etched on his brain of being chased by a ghost on a motorcycle … |
| 10 | It is only at the end of the poem that Mariana finally despairs at the realisation that her lover will not come . |
| 11 | And he laughs at the idea that the Prince of Darkness will now become King of the Castle . |
| 12 | This hits at the doctrine that Parliament can not bind , or curtail , the powers of future parliaments . |
| 13 | He rejoices at the fact that they started off with small-town views , and began thinking globally . |
| 14 | A computer manager with the Scottish Examination Board , Mr Fisher chuckles at the thought that he is ‘ fighting my boss 's boss ’ . |