Example sentences of "at [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught Cam looking at me the other day . |
| 2 | He made another pass at me the other day . " |
| 3 | ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day . |
| 4 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 5 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 6 | Wid ye jist take a keek oot o' that windae and lukk at whit the silly bitch is daein' noo ! |
| 7 | Party leaders inserted this clause after an August Central Committee meeting at which the General Secretary , Mr Nguyen Van Linh , exposed the leadership 's anxiety at developments in China and Eastern Europe with a fierce denunciation of political pluralism and subversive imperialist powers . |
| 8 | " In general , Lenneberg 's ( 1967 ) contention that the extent to which a speaker will have a foreign accent correlates fairly well with the age at which the second language is learned has received extensive confirmation . |
| 9 | The study of ( ht ) in Havelok is of course relevant to the date at which the velar fricative [ x ] before [ t ] ( in right , might , etc. ) was lost in English . |
| 10 | There has been no point in British history at which the prevailing method of government has been completely swept away , allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government . |
| 11 | Yet handling and recruiting people is a task at which the Japanese are famously different from their American or British counterparts . |
| 12 | If the engagement period is to be protracted because the couple are young or studying , there may be a big party not unlike a small-scale version of the wedding at which the future bride has a chance to display her ring to well-wishers and acquire presents for the new home , for which the guests must be thanked . |
| 13 | Upon learning that these deaf people had no place to go to , or even to worship , Mr. Patterson held a meeting at which the above Association was formed , and enough money was raised to purchase a plot of land at Grosvenor Street where a social meeting place incorporating a small chapel was built . |
| 14 | There is a six-year Statute of Limitations which relates to the period from the date at which the competing claim was first asserted ( not at the time the work of art was stolen nor the date of subsequent sale ) . |
| 15 | The points A and B in the diagram represent the temperatures at which the largest crystallites disappear and are regarded as the respective melting temperatures T m for the samples . |
| 16 | The unemployment rate at which the TRW curve intersect. , with the FRW line defines NAIRU : it is the unique unemployment rate at which the real wage demands of workers can be reconciled with the real wage which employers are prepared to concede . |
| 17 | Definition : The IS curve joins together all those combinations of the rate of interest and the level of income at which the real sector of the economy is in equilibrium — that is , at which total injections equal total withdrawals . |
| 18 | It follows that an interest rate of 5 per cent and an income level of £100 million is one combination of interest and income at which the real sector is in equilibrium . |
| 19 | Before the Suez débâcle in the autumn of 1956 , British governments had felt themselves able to dictate the pace at which the colonial Empire would be transformed into a cohesive Commonwealth of Nations : after Suez the imperial ethos was shattered , and our run down to middle-power status was no longer resisted . |
| 20 | A rival meeting in Vienna the same year , at which the radical Menshevik L.D. Trotsky took a leading role , failed to forge unity among the non-Bolshevik Social Democrats . |
| 21 | A profit-maximising firm under conditions of perfect competition will expand production up to the point at which the additional cost of producing the last unit of output ( ’ marginal cost ’ ) is equal to price . |
| 22 | The maximum speed attainable with each switching angle is simply the stepping rate at which the appropriate characteristic intersects the " load torque " line : The velocity profile during acceleration can be calculated Precisely for each switching angle using the graphical method described in Section 6.3 . |
| 23 | The lecture programme , together with its associated tutorial and laboratory work is based entirely at one of the three participating universities , but for the project work students will join the institution at which the appropriate special facilities or expertise exist . |
| 24 | The radius at which the outer orbits develop loops and become self-intersecting is called the ‘ outer Lindblad resonance ’ ( OLR ) , and the mean radius of the smallest orbit of the middle family to be self-intersecting is called the ‘ inner Lindblad resonance ’ ( ILR ) . |
| 25 | It is also the address at which the following registers and documents must normally be kept : |
| 26 | In 1614 the Prince of Wales himself had to be excluded from a dinner at which the Russian ambassador was to be present , since it was feared that the latter would refuse to accept a place on the king 's left if the prince were seated on his right . |
| 27 | The Le Mans officials were blameless as their safety measures were found to be more than adequate , and the speed at which the injured were taken to hospital was also exemplary . |
| 28 | The temperature at which the solid and liquid are in equilibrium is called the freezing point . |
| 29 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 30 | The 1931 general election was the last election until that of February 1974 at which the electoral performance of the Liberals was of significance to the two major parties . |