Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 2 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 3 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 4 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 5 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 6 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 7 | For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success . |
| 8 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 9 | The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle . |
| 10 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 11 | That disparity lies at the heart of our opposition to a property tax . |
| 12 | Both focused on minority rights within Yugoslavia , and I entirely agree that that issue lies at the core of the problem within the country . |
| 13 | The appeal hearing opened on May 15 , 1990 , with Demjanjuk 's lawyers arguing that he had been the victim of mistaken identity and that evidence presented at the original trial had been forged . |
| 14 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 15 | Another interpretation is that metamorphism occurred at the same time , or post-dated thrusting , and that the frictional heating produced during thrusting contributed to the partial melting of the crust and the intrusion of granitic rocks . |
| 16 | Remembered the first thing Vern had said to me , sitting on that bench staring at the Clifton suspension bridge : ‘ Tame . |
| 17 | Anyone under that age caught at the wheel of any vehicle over 1.3 litres without a very good excuse should then face a life driving ban . |
| 18 | Cocoa for delivery that month traded at a premium of £36 a tonne to March , the next contract month , about £10 a tonne more than on Friday . |
| 19 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 20 | We could argue , then , that recording comes at the culmination of one era as much as at the start of another , and that the blanket concepts of ‘ mass media ’ and ‘ mechanical reproduction ’ need opening up . |
| 21 | For example , it is related to parental love in that children learn at a very early stage that behaving well or being ‘ OK ’ means they get more affection ; being ‘ not OK ’ leads to a withdrawal of affection . |
| 22 | That understanding lies at the heart of the company 's market segmentation policy . |
| 23 | He believes quite simply that unemployment lies at the root of the problem . |
| 24 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it is rather elaborate , is n't it , with that sequin trimming at the neck . |
| 26 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 27 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 28 | Here the campus is king and no breath of doubt is admitted that time spent at a university is the decisive influence on life , even if the claims of life take one willingly , even defiantly , out of universities forever . |