Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years did n't seem such a long time when one of them had elapsed , and although Robyn was satisfied that she was highly valued by her colleagues , the talk at the University these days was all of further cuts , of tightening belts , deteriorating staff-student ratios . |
| 2 | Kat brought it right back to basics : ‘ Good thing they do n't burn at the stake these days . ’ |
| 3 | At the outset these honours were merely purchased , but in later creations the augmentations came with the grants . |
| 4 | CAN you imagine a situation at a cemetery — the funeral procession arriving , formally attired people getting out of cars at a marked spot , but some of these well-dressed mourners removing their jackets , rolling up sleeves , unloading picks and spades from the boot and starting to dig the grave ; possibly with the professionals cum gardeners watching from a distance and gloating at the mess these amateurs are making ? |
| 5 | At the surface these cracks may remain open and empty , forming deep clefts , but deeper down , magma forces its way up into the crack , widening it considerably by hydraulically wedging the walls apart . |
| 6 | Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it . |
| 7 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 8 | They tell them that foreigners just want to laugh at them , but I think it 's because they 're ashamed at the poverty these people are forced to live in . |
| 9 | They tell them that foreigners just want to laugh at them , but I think it 's because they 're ashamed at the poverty these people are forced to live in . |
| 10 | Next week we shall be looking at the impact these methods of delivering care have upon such varied areas of our professional life as advocacy , ethics , accountability and assertiveness . |
| 11 | At the moment these displace the BBC 's Radio 3 and Radio 4 from their VHF transmitters . |
| 12 | At the time these were two of the world 's most advanced designs and the subject of much secrecy within Britain . |
| 13 | At the time these changes were justified by the need to maintain social order and the ‘ violations ’ of individual rights were explained as purely temporary expedients . |
| 14 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 15 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 16 | Her sight was failing because of cataracts at the time these were written . |
| 17 | On Nov. 27 three EGPGC members , Ramón Pineiro Beiro , Eduardo Abad Lojo and Manuel Quintáns López , were convicted of attacks on banks in La Coruña in the autumn of 1988 ; at the time these attacks had been attributed to GRAPO [ see p. 36777 ] . |
| 18 | At the time these recordings are made the infant can not yet relate cause and effect , so approval and reward for good behaviour tend to produce confusion . |
| 19 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |