Example sentences of "as [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £62 million set aside to cover exceptional costs — as explained at the conference this was necessary to make us more competitive in the marketplace and included costs associated with restructuring our workforce and renewing our infrastructure . |
| 2 | Much of the early proceedings seemed to confirm the recent resurgence of the conservative wing , as witnessed at the June founding congress of the Russian Federation Communist Party [ see pp. 37538-39 ] . |
| 3 | The wording of the penal notice in Form N 77 is as given at the foot of the draft injunctions in Chapter 32 . |
| 4 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 5 | A man who is so abnormal as to weep at the death of his wife is said to be behaving illogically . |
| 6 | She describes the incident that sparked off , or at least increased , her concern about the content of contemporary television programmes , as happening at the height of the Honest to God debate . |
| 7 | The first research and development projects under the agreement have already begun and are operating on target and on time , the partners say — as reported at the time , in April , Bull announced its DPX/20 series of scalable Unix workstations and servers using the IBM RISC , and products are being shipped . |
| 8 | The main reason for the fall in profits at Sekers has been the unsettling effect on world markets for silk products of the unprecedented 75% retroactive rise in raw silk prices from China since April , as reported at the AGM in September . |
| 9 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 10 | The poses come as pauses at the end of each sequence , the dancer then changing position before beginning a new phrase , as if the guitarist were resting his fingers fur a moment . |
| 11 | Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent . |
| 12 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 13 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 14 | But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return . |
| 15 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 16 | The statistical resemblance is measured by comparing mean values and ranges of actual and simulated sequences , as well as looking at the distribution of runs of wet or dry days . |
| 17 | Lee also pioneered ground hook flying , as seen at the Wildwood New Jersey Championships in 1987 . |
| 18 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 19 | Thus , there was still widespread damage in the superficial mucosa as seen at the light ( Fig 4C ) and scanning electron ( Fig 5E and F ) microscopic level . |
| 20 | And when the used rods of uranium are put through a chemical process designed to separate unpleasant waste from still usable fuel , as happens at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria , a whole range of radioactive pollutants is generated . |
| 21 | In some schools you will be asked to participate with other students in basic class work over a weekend ( as happens at the Bristol Old Vic drama school ) and in some you may find yourself being judged partly by senior students of the school who will be sitting with the faculty panel ( which is something that happens at Drama Centre ) . |
| 22 | Photos and information are now coming in as promised at the Steam Engine Rally and Museum Roadshow which the BCRS attended . |
| 23 | For an upward movement the massive response shown below is given , while for a downward movement only two impulses result , as shown at the top . |
| 24 | Imagine the triangle was made into a square as shown at the side . |
| 25 | But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development . |
| 26 | Many authorities regard the Monoplacophora as lying at the root of the other molluscan groups ; gastropods , cephalopods and even bivalves may have been derived from them . |
| 27 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 28 | On March 22 , 1990 , the EC Council of ( Environment ) Ministers approved the establishment of a European Environment Agency as envisaged at the December 1989 EC Strasbourg summit [ see pp. 37132 ; 37209 ] . |
| 29 | The UK Environment Secretary , John Gummer , has launched a consultation paper on how the country might move towards sustainability as envisaged at the Rio summit . |
| 30 | In a response to questions from the House of Commons select committee on energy the UK government stated on Nov. 24 that it was not yet fully committed to cutting the use of fossil fuel by 20 per cent ( as agreed at the Toronto conference in 1988 — see p. 36784 ) , on the grounds that this was an " arbitrary " figure , which was picked " without scientific evidence " . |