Example sentences of "as the [noun] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publicity was limited and , as the deadline approached at the end of 1987 , inaccurate rumours were rife about the exact meaning of the regulations . |
| 2 | He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side . |
| 3 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |
| 4 | The exclusion of votes for very small parties is responsible for another slight deviation : it means that — as the figures given at the beginning of this chapter showed — the other patties secure a percentage of seats marginally greater than their percentage of all the votes . |
| 5 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 6 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 7 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 8 | Belinda saw the gesture , winced inwardly as the image stabbed at her feelings , and despised herself for wasting her emotions in this way . |
| 9 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |