Example sentences of "up at a [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 2 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 3 | Brought up at a time when military aircraft would have seemed a fantasy , he later became an expert on one of the most complicated of signal functions , air-land co-operation . |
| 4 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 5 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 6 | The emancipation of the serfs had been drawn up at a time when most of the tsar 's principal advisers belonged to the age of Nicholas I. Within a year of the promulgation of the statutes , most of the chief posts in the empire were held by people whose sympathy with the new social order was greater than that of the emancipators . |