Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 2 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 3 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 4 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 5 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 6 | It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves . |
| 7 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |
| 8 | Under their new paymasters , filmmakers were no longer interested in the sort of inner tensions that work at the heart of the more intense and exciting British films . |
| 9 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 10 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 11 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 12 | It is the attempt to examine some of these interdisciplinary intersections that lies at the heart of this text . |
| 13 | Four years ago the Saatchi Collection issued a lavish catalogue of much of its contents , a boxed set with the title Art of Our Time which comprised four beautifully illustrated volumes that retailed at the not inconsiderable price of £100 . |
| 14 | She knew there were things she should be trying to sort out in her life , but she did n't want to face up to certain ideas that lurked at the back of her mind . |
| 15 | or you could use one or more of the questions that appear at the end of each section of the main text of this booklet . |
| 16 | ( 9 ) An evidence questioning question questions that look at the veracity of the evidence , e.g. " On what do you think the weavers of the tapestry based their picture ? " |
| 17 | Of course the other irony as well is that the powers that meet at the conference at St Petersburg er the powers decide they will intervene in Greece . |
| 18 | It should wear off eventually — in a week , a month or a year — depending on the astrological and meteorological conditions that prevailed at the time she launched it . |
| 19 | That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time . |
| 20 | The starry-eyed idealists who start revolutions , he told himself , are incapable of visualising the horrors that lie at the end of them . |
| 21 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 22 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
| 23 | Doyle indicated the tall building , just visible behind the scattered beech and ash trees that clustered at the bottom of every garden , and along the small roadways . |
| 24 | People in temperate countries pay little attention to mangroves : trees that grow at the ocean s edge . |
| 25 | On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand |
| 26 | On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand |
| 27 | Detritus — Also sometimes known as mulm , this describes the mixture of tiny waste items that gathers at the bottom and in the filters of any tank set-up . |
| 28 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 29 | Now we could ask him to write about what he has drawn , to tell as much as he knows about the trains that run at the back of his house . |
| 30 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |