Example sentences of "[n mass] at [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So in this sense the approach is a pragmatic one , which bears on the here and now rather than on eternity.i At the same time , to formulate the problem in terms of interests , as I have done , is to focus attention on the moral priorities embedded in holism and individualism .
2 They arrived at the aircraft at the same instant as the factory fire crew .
3 To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time .
4 At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’
5 When fired at a school of fish , these seem to act like a shotgun , disorienting many fish at the same time .
6 Lyricist Tim Rice , one of the forces behind worldwide musical smashes Chess , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , summed up : ‘ You ca n't fool hundreds of thousands , or millions of people at the same time with absolute garbage for record after record .
7 Spoken messages can be stored in electronic mailboxes and retrieved by telephone , and by several people at the same time — because the messages are not recorded as on a tape recorder , but on electronic pulses in the computer 's memory .
8 Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) .
9 Many are noisy , dirty , and uninformed , as are many adults , but they may be bright and attractive people at the same time .
10 When there is a face-to-face conversation and a third person joins in , the speechreader , who can not see two people at the same time , tends to become isolated while they chat together .
11 When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another .
12 The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments .
13 In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole .
14 They were in the car when Emma said quietly , ‘ You can love two people at the same time , ca n't you , Mammy ? ’
15 Peggy paused before answering , ‘ Yes ; yes , you can love two people at the same time . ’
16 So yes , her daughter could love two people at the same time .
17 It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down .
18 The focal point is vocalist Lucia , who succeeds with some finesse in playing keyboards , singing , jumping , clapping and attempting several triple somersaults with twist and pike at the same time .
19 On the staff side we have recruited nine individuals , er , but since we 've lost three members of staff at the same time , that is a net increase of six , and since most of them are part-time , there 's actually only three full-time equivalents , we 've been able to do that entirely within the we had on establishments at work .
20 Following losses in the second quarter of $5.3m ( 1992 : $3.1m loss ) , the deficit in other overseas markets increased substantially from $6.0m to $11.4m at the half year .
21 This lets them process graphics at the same speed as their Intel chips instead of the tardy 8MHz allowed by the traditional ISA buses .
22 After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature .
23 After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature .
24 After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature .
25 Others would prefer just to fuel the war — and make a quick buck at the same time .
26 HISTORIC Scotland will move next year to new headquarters at the former Longmore Hospital in Salisbury Place , Edinburgh .
27 Like the NL this too was a secret society and had its headquarters at the same address in licensed premises in Lamb 's Conduit Street , London .
28 Graham Morris came over from Britain to work at Rover 's North American headquarters at the same time as the company launched its newest luxury car , the 827 .
29 In some cases these Rios 2 chips will overlap the PowerPC in performance while others should outperform it 50% to 100% at the same clock speeds thanks to superscalar technology .
30 Indeed , last summer there were often winds of Force 6 to 8 in the Solent area with atmospheric pressures of around 1035 mb at the same time .
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