Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway 's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has called for tough carbon taxes to protect the global environment at the biennial Offshore Northern Seas oil and gas conference in Stavanger . |
| 2 | There were some who could never bring themselves to attempt to take a dispassionate look at the reasons why American policy-makers ( and above all Eisenhower ) should have acted as they did . |
| 3 | TYPE the text of the letter , inserting a symbol ( eg ‘ @ ‘ ) at the points where variable details are to be inserted . |
| 4 | One of the taxi drivers was shot as he sat in his cab at a Castle Street taxi rank , at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 5 | The other two men were hit by the two gunmen as they stood on a nearby footpath at the spot where black taxis operate up and down Belfast 's Falls Road . |
| 6 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 7 | Any phenomenology of experience must address the way in which experience stands at the moment where internal fantasies cross the threshold of cultural categories . |
| 8 | In Chapter 18 , we showed that the equilibrium level of income is determined at the point where total withdrawals from the flow of income ( S + T + M ) are just equal to total injections into that flow ( I + G + X ) . |
| 9 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 10 | At the time when radical feminists were advocating ‘ androgyny ’ , and designers like Coco Chanel were ‘ masculinising ’ women 's fashions , the art world countered by presenting a woman who was ‘ emancipated ’ but ‘ feminine ’ and in a class by herself . ’ |
| 11 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 12 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 13 | There is no evidence ruling out either the pentagon-road or fullerene-road schemes , but the field is at a state where new suggestions for the fullerene formation mechanism are welcome . |
| 14 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 15 | As I see it , we are at a crossroad where far-reaching decisions must soon be made by women , by local authorities and central government . |
| 16 | At a time when Western governments have proved slow to inject cash into the countries of the former Eastern block , the activities of cultural organisations and foundations such as the Getty Grant Program and the Soros projects are providing a lifeline for the artists and academics of the region . |
| 17 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |
| 18 | In a more commonplace example , it does not take much imagination to see how old people may see their contribution to society as substantially diminished and their dependence increased , at a time when technological advances present an older generation with a succession of mysteries related to daily living . |
| 19 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 20 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 21 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 22 | The research comes at a time when serious questions are being asked about the use of advertising and public relations by the government , and when the media , too , are the subject of considerable scrutiny . |
| 23 | ‘ At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual . |
| 24 | His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity . |
| 25 | This litany served to keep alive in French Christian memory the true place of the king as Christ 's representative on earth , at a time when political realities bade fair to obliterate it ; but it also elevated the lower ranks of earthly powers . |
| 26 | At a time when diplomatic relations between the West and Iran were looking so much better , how could they be so stupid ? |
| 27 | At a time when vast tracts were unsettled , it was all too easy for governments to be profligate . |
| 28 | As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success . |
| 29 | Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force . |
| 30 | Between 1960 and 1981 , London lost 51 per cent of its manufacturing jobs , and the major conurbations 43 per cent , at a time when small towns lost only 1 per cent and rural areas actually gained 24 per cent . |