Example sentences of "that [verb] [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 2 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 3 | ‘ Something like , I dare say , ’ went on the old lady , ‘ that seizure that attacked poor Kirtlington at the end of last season . ’ |
| 4 | Apart from the applications already referred to in this section , filters that provide total rejection at some frequency are particularly useful for measuring distortion . |
| 5 | is the word that occurs four times at least in a nursery rhyme , there was a something man , who walked a something mile , he found a something sixpence upon a something style |
| 6 | One is getting through parliament changes to a law that protects small shopkeepers at the expense of big stores , the chief outlets for foreign goods . |
| 7 | Grade III injury occurred regularly in those areas of the mucosa that showed haemorrhagical damage at the macroscopic level . |
| 8 | There was only two of us that showed any interest at all in that and that was the guy that was working here , he was running the photography and myself . |
| 9 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 10 | It is white racism that keeps ethnic minorities at the bottom of the hierarchy and separated from white society as a whole . |
| 11 | When repeated reflux episodes resulted in repetitive simultaneous oesophageal contractions that followed each other at short intervals , the pattern resembled that seen in primary oesophageal motility disorders . |
| 12 | There was never a club with an unhappy chairman and an unhappy board that achieved lasting success at anything . ’ |
| 13 | Soviet design and procurement philosophy displays a prudence and conservatism which reflects well known Soviet constraints , but also an ingenuity in the face of shortages and stringencies that characterises Soviet performance at its best . |
| 14 | If not soul-mates , they were always style-mates ; and the fierce trenchancy that characterises literary life at its liveliest , in a polemical age , never found finer exponents . |
| 15 | But other animals , particularly those that produce many babies at a time , find it more practical to take their young with them when they forage . |
| 16 | A golf swing is a dynamic action that demands good balance at all times . |
| 17 | Yes I do , there 's still injury doubts over Alan Jedsa , Paul keeps his place in the side , he did n't have a particular good game against Notts County ; one horrendous effort — error there , but he has played well generally and especially the same side that started that match at Notts County , so we can expect to see both full backs pushing up and really hopefully an open game like the one against Port Vale . |
| 18 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
| 19 | Now I was one of those people that represented this city at Florence . |
| 20 | In section 1.6.1 a major difference in the way they conceive of the fundamental forces that generate these changes at the international level was identified . |
| 21 | A major local issue , such as a redevelopment plan , or a sudden increase in the rates , as occurred in many areas in the mid-1970s , can cause the formation of a purely local party that enjoys some success at the polls ( Grant 19771 . |
| 22 | Gullible child of the age that I am , I assumed that someone , some where , had invented a machine that accepted complete walnuts at one end and dispensed perfect halves ( and shells ) at the other . |
| 23 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 24 | It may be this rare combination of sharp wit and soft heart that makes one reader at least believe that this man is marked out for fame . |
| 25 | It is impossible to imagine that there is any purpose to life that makes any sense at all other than that life is to be enjoyed . |
| 26 | In the absence of suitable test gear , simply give VR1 a setting that provides low distortion at high signal levels . |
| 27 | [ That this House is deeply concerned that ( a ) in October 1991 , the Inspectorate of Pollution issued an improvement notice plus additional requirements upon Coal Products Ltd. , Avenue Works , Wingerworth , Derbyshire , arising from problems of airborne pollution , ( b ) in November 1991 , the North East Derbyshire District Council rejected a planning application for the installation of a plant for the regeneration of active carbon on the same site and ( c ) in December 1991 , the National Rivers Authority issued a report showing that following partial treatment at lagoons in a country park , 40 million gallons of toxic effluent is seeping into the ground near homes at nearby Grassmoor ; and calls upon the Secretary of State for the Environment to undertake an urgent environmental audit of the plant and its neighbouring communities with an immediate project of protecting the health and well-being of both the workforce at Coal Products Ltd. and residents in the surrounding communities , whilst seeking ways and means of safeguarding jobs in an area of high unemployment . ] |
| 28 | Not all of Japan 's leading companies are members of groups that have particular banks at their centre . |
| 29 | Such arguments were strongly opposed by environmental groups such as Greenpeace , which described the final result as " a strong signal from the international community that dumping nuclear waste at sea is unacceptable " . |