Example sentences of "[conj] [that] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Next , a comparison can be made between the viscosity of a polymer melt at a temperature , and that at a reference temperature such as and so |
| 4 | And that at a time when , as was realised , the stakes were particularly high , when the country 's prospective self-sufficiency in oil would provide an incoming Government with a stronger economic base . |
| 5 | They have argued that Elizabeth 's church contained a variety of acceptable doctrinal positions , that predestinarianism never managed to achieve the dominance accorded it by Tyacke , and that at no time during the sixty-five years between 1560 and 1625 was the idea that good works could be an aid to salvation anything other than a perfectly orthodox belief . |
| 6 | There is no publicity out yet for the line , but it is said that the 1993 peak season of four trains each way will operate for only five weeks and that at the beginning and end of season there will be no trains on Fridays . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is likely that the early figures in particular were underestimates , and that at the mid-century there were only two persons for each head of cattle . |
| 10 | The committee proposed that a life should be placed on nonconforming uses and that at the expiration of that life the use should be brought to an end without compensation . |
| 11 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 12 | Much of what he says about his money troubles and his illness is consistent with the evidence of extant records which show his salary was often in arrears , and that at the time he says he was ill his salary was being collected for him , indicating his absence from work . |