Example sentences of "that at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These words were used specifically of Whitman 's writing about lilacs or the mocking-bird , and revealing that at such moments his theories and beliefs dropped away like needless pretexts . |
| 2 | We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common . |
| 3 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |
| 4 | I have this theory that at such times he 's communing with the mother ship which gave him his mission on this planet , but then I could be wrong . |
| 5 | In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 2 WLR 805 at p873 , Lord Donaldson MR stated that at first instance Scott J had come to the conclusion that the duty to maintain confidentiality was not necessarily in all circumstances the same in relation to third parties who became possessed of confidential information as it was in relation to the primary confident . |
| 6 | As seen from statistics provided in Table 13 , the pattern of this relationship assumes a " J " shape ( i.e. , lower at second that at first order and inclining progressively thereafter ) in the developed countries , and tends towards a " J " or " U " form in some developing countries for which data are shown . |
| 7 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 8 | Dominating Nefta is another extraordinary feature , so incongruous that at first sight it might well be a mirage . |
| 9 | With a maximum hull thickness of 22cm these boards have a distinctive round underwater shape that at first sight resembles a canoe . |
| 10 | Your overall objective should be to ensure that a deal that at first sight looks attractive is not , in the long run , undermined because you have to expend significant additional sums in order to maintain a reasonable life-style abroad and fulfil your duties adequately . |
| 11 | In the past , unification of phenomena that at first sight appear independent has signified great progress in physics . |
| 12 | This is so obvious that at first sight it might seem superfluous to state it . |
| 13 | A week after the had asking for more , Oliver remained greater prisoner in the darken solitary room which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board , but it appears that at first sight not unreasonable disclose that for a particular gentleman of white waistcoat . |
| 14 | ( Actually , it is surprising how facts often can be proved in practice that at first sight seem to be unprovable if the defendant is prepared to contradict them . |
| 15 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 16 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 17 | Or unforeseen problems : perhaps over wayleaves that at first glance appeared to be straight forward . |
| 18 | The first of the preliminary sketches for the Demoiselles , on the other hand , suggest that at first Picasso may have been more drawn to Cézanne 's earlier , more romantic figure pieces . |
| 19 | Instead , she turned it on so low that at first Tug could not make out anything except a faint crackling and hissing . |
| 20 | He says that at first clients refused to believe it could be done so fast — some need to be convinced that it 's not just science fiction . |
| 21 | Mr Anthony Scott-Gall , prosecuting , said that at first Messam started chatting ‘ amiably and mundanely ’ to all his victims , girls and women aged between 16 and 20 . |
| 22 | A poet 's imagery throughout the descriptions of storm and weather is strengthened by a visual exactness and a sense almost of an external agency inimical to man : it is no accident that at many points the movement of waves is compared to the malice of active devils . |
| 23 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 24 | Even in his defence of Needham , Dr Chapman admits that at one mill more than a third of the apprentices died , absconded or had to be returned and only two out of 780 apprentices recruited were later employed as adult workers . |
| 25 | Linguistic phenomena may be equivalent in the sense that at one level of coding they may be different , but at another level they may be the same . |
| 26 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 27 | The gang of baddies were originally deer stealers ; and it was The Food programme , discussing the increasing availablity of game in High Street supermarkets , who had pointed out that at one time British prisons held more poachers than all the prisoners in France put together . |
| 28 | Since the church was the work of Pelligrini Tibaldi it means that at one time the two most famous of Milanese architects — Il Pellegrino and L'Alessi — were working in Piazza San Fedele at the same time , the one on the church , and the other on the Palazzo Marino . |
| 29 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , it was reported that at one time dust and water were falling together , as mud , and a thickness of fifteen centimetres accumulated in only ten minutes . |
| 30 | If man has evolved to maintain his selfish genes , why can not he be happy to do just that and to fulfil the other biological drives like curiosity , sociability and the desire to dominate that at one time presumably aided the survival of his genes ? |