Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] at that " in BNC.
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| 1 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 2 | The whole action of your book should be in keeping with the action of books written at that particular time . |
| 3 | The gentleman on the other side of Artemis laughed at that , but also into his napkin , adding ‘ bravo ’ in a low voice . |
| 4 | But in the absence of an increase in the speed of mechanization in the early seventies , the peak rates of accumulation achieved at that time generated peak intensities of demand for labour . |
| 5 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 6 | The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place . |
| 7 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 8 | The results are presented as a series of measures : ‘ page traffic ’ ( the percentage of people looking at that page ) , ‘ noting ’ ( percentage seeing the ad ) , ‘ reading ’ , etc . |
| 9 | In contrast there may be certain parts of the world — Siberia has been suggested — where it may be important , because of the presence of energy or raw materials or for other strategic reasons , to have integrated factories where the emphasis is on minimising the number of people employed at that location ( Hatvany et al. n.d . ) . |
| 10 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 11 | When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction . |