Example sentences of "[that] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 2 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 3 | Since work to be undertaken in respective months in the kitchen , fruit and flower gardens was noted in the Dictionary , it might be thought that a Kalendar was superfluous , but Miller explains that at the request of particular friends he had produced a work not only portable , but also at a price to suit those who could not afford a larger book . |
| 4 | A Chilean study reveals that at the peak migration ages of 15–29 , there were 62 males for every 100 females . |
| 5 | Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House , my father was indeed the embodiment of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 6 | Now that means that at the peak , the Communist Party has a working class membership of something like thirty thousand plus , which is one in every hundred industrial workers in China at this time . |
| 7 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 8 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 9 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 10 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 11 | Note that at the level of phonology we can abstract smaller elements such as the phoneme /g/ in glad , but such segments have no formal meaning . |
| 12 | The data also show that at the thicket stage in coniferous plantations the ground flora is much less diverse and dense than in control sites of similar age which consist of semi-natural mixed oak ( Quercus spp. ) stands . |
| 13 | Putting these answers together we can see that at the heart of fundamentalism is a longing for a faith which is secure , tangible , successful , simple . |
| 14 | The smaller Divisions could argue that at the heart of their success lies an individual education process and a separate designation — the Chartered Building Surveyor is a prime example . |
| 15 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 16 | For if , as we have seen , the vacuity at the heart of Owen 's prospectus was the tacit assumption that owners , having seen the light , would agreeably acquiesce in the expropriation of their property in order that it would be beneficially used by the workers , that at the heart of Marx 's was that the proletariat would as the movement of the dialectic ordained , seize the means of production . |
| 17 | What Donaldson has taught us , however , is that at the heart of the experimental situation is a child who is actively trying to make his or her own sense of the situation — and in particular , trying to understand , from what the adult says and does , and from how the materials are manipulated , what the adult 's motives and intentions might be . |
| 18 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 19 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 20 | All the great religions affirm that at the heart of religion lies Mystery which nothing can adequately express : all religious forms of expression have the character of pointing towards this Mystery , and not describing it . |
| 21 | Most Hindus whom I have met would say that they do not , for they believe that at the heart of life is Oneness — Brahman — which manifests itself in an infinite number of forms . |
| 22 | I consider that we must proceed on the basis that at the date this agreement was entered into , March 26 , 1952 , the wife was then in desertion . |
| 23 | That presupposes that at the date of the accounts all the relevant liabilities are known . |
| 24 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 25 | Since a request for a new tenancy must specify a commencement date for the new tenancy not more than twelve months after the service of the notice , this means that at the date when the tenant must serve the break notice he is not in a position to serve a request for a new tenancy . |
| 26 | From the time of the early modernists ( Schoenberg and others ) , only the radical avant-garde has resisted this situation , and that at the price of social isolation and deliberate incomprehensibility : the only way left to refuse the market . |
| 27 | It is clear from that figure that at the price level P the level of actual aggregate demand is Y 1 , whereas firms initially wanted to produce Y n . |
| 28 | Yet I think that at the subconscious and half-conscious levels he was a heavy weight upon me of a perhaps oppressive or repressive kind . |
| 29 | The advocate depute submitted that at the trial the view had been taken by the advocate depute and counsel for the defence that there was sufficient evidence to support the view that the two appellants were acting in concert . |
| 30 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |