Example sentences of "that at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the good news is that at a time of recession there are bargains to be had : even grand dealers might discuss a discreet price reduction . |
| 2 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 3 | It is no good arguing , as privately , ministers may be doing , that at a time of recession these considerations are unimportant . |
| 4 | ‘ It is no surprise to anyone that at a time of severe recession , investment in fixed assets , cars etc , will be weak , ’ said Geoff Evans , managing director of Forward Asset Finance . |
| 5 | Mr Wilcox said that at a time of increased pressures to reduce public spending , new strategies on housing were needed urgently . |
| 6 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
| 7 | It is true that at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in April — May 1946 Byrnes seemed unusually eager to exchange views and to talk in broad terms of how Soviet influence in the Middle East and elsewhere might be resisted . |
| 8 | It currently accounts for some 10 per cent of ozone loss , but this proportion is likely to rise to 16 per cent if present trends continue , despite the fact that at a meeting of Montreal Protocol signatories last November , it was agreed to freeze use at present levels [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 9 | In yesterday 's edition of The Northern Echo it was reported that at a meeting of Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee Labour councillor Eric Turner criticised a fellow councillor , Derek McVickers . |
| 10 | Ballesteros explained that at a meeting of top players at Wentworth last year he had pushed the idea of more match-play golf and when told that American captain Tom Watson was also planning on the same lines he said : ‘ He copied me . ’ |
| 11 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
| 12 | We are concerned that at every level of government — in Europe , in Whitehall and in local authorities — some regulations may have been adopted in answer to legitimate concerns , but without proper regard to their overall impact on businesses and individuals . |
| 13 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 14 | Reviewing the evidence in 1980 the Black Report ( DHSS 1980 ) concluded that at every stage of the life-cycle there was a substantial class gradient in mortality and that class differences had remained comparatively stable since 1930 . |
| 15 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 16 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 17 | Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House , my father was indeed the embodiment of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 18 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 19 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 20 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 21 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 22 | Note that at the level of phonology we can abstract smaller elements such as the phoneme /g/ in glad , but such segments have no formal meaning . |
| 23 | Putting these answers together we can see that at the heart of fundamentalism is a longing for a faith which is secure , tangible , successful , simple . |
| 24 | The smaller Divisions could argue that at the heart of their success lies an individual education process and a separate designation — the Chartered Building Surveyor is a prime example . |
| 25 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 26 | For if , as we have seen , the vacuity at the heart of Owen 's prospectus was the tacit assumption that owners , having seen the light , would agreeably acquiesce in the expropriation of their property in order that it would be beneficially used by the workers , that at the heart of Marx 's was that the proletariat would as the movement of the dialectic ordained , seize the means of production . |
| 27 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 28 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 29 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 30 | All the great religions affirm that at the heart of religion lies Mystery which nothing can adequately express : all religious forms of expression have the character of pointing towards this Mystery , and not describing it . |