Example sentences of "[adv] that at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sent a little prayer ceilingwards that at least there would be no dinner jackets , then ran a comb through his hair as an afterthought . |
| 2 | Whether or not those complaints were justified is another matter ; enough that at the time I felt they were . |
| 3 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 4 | Try and get a dual flight on the airfield so that at least you know something about the airfield and its surrounds . |
| 5 | Fortunately , with weight shift , moving forwards causes a nose-up rather than a nose-down effect so that at least it does not accentuate the pitching movement and make the sensation worse . |
| 6 | On the positive side one could cite the wider political knowledge acquired by a territory invaded on all sides during 1917–21 , so that at least the many peasants , caught up in military life , like our travelling soldier , might acquire broader interests . |
| 7 | He once defined the Anglican doctrine of apostolic succession to several Lutherans so that at the end they could be heard saying ‘ Hear , Hear ’ . |
| 8 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 9 | The tidal reach of the sea fills the lake so that at all times the water is brackish . |
| 10 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 11 | We have seen that , under the ordinary form of a mortgage of freehold land used before the property Acts , the legal estate was conveyed to the mortgagee , so that at law he became the owner of the property ; but that the mortgagor was treated by equity as the owner — he had an equity of redemption , which was an equitable estate in the land ; and he could only be deprived of his equity of redemption in certain defined ways , e.g. by foreclosure or sale . |
| 12 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 13 | So much so that at one point she was actually investigated by the Inquisition — in its mildest form — who were however unable to discipline or control her life . |
| 14 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 15 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 16 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |
| 17 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 18 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 19 | The cabling of Britain is to begin as soon as possible , so that at least major conurbations will be hooked up by 1986 , when the BBC starts direct broadcasting by satellite ( DBS ) . |
| 20 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 21 | Since being appointed as Shropshire Youth rep , I have become increasingly aware of the lack of ‘ voice ’ that the youth of Shropshire seem to have , and therefore my job is to represent the youth of Shropshire so that at last we can be heard . |
| 22 | His father 's library was open to him and we are told that his ‘ father set him very early to learn portions of the works of the best English poets by heart , so that at a very early age he could repeat large portions of Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser ’ . |
| 23 | What really happened was that he had to climb a length of rope which had mattresses underneath it so that at the end of each take he could simply drop to the ground in safety . |
| 24 | One should also try to foster an atmosphere of independence , so that at least during that conversation some choices are possible : ‘ What do you think about … . ’ 'Would you like this or that ? ’ are the very basic kind of choices one can offer even when life seems very restricted . |
| 25 | All applications , and the bulk of Taos itself is written in Virtual Processor code , so that at run-time the code is loaded onto a real processor and translated on the fly into the chip 's native instruction set . |
| 26 | Accommodation on Fregate was in chalets thatched with palm leaves and situated on the top of the beach so that at high tide you could almost jump into the sea from your window . |
| 27 | A guessing game goes on with the diviner responding to the client 's cues so that at the end of the consultation , the client departs with all his worst suspicions amply confirmed . |
| 28 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 29 | All applications , and the bulk of Taos itself is written in Virtual Processor code , so that at run-time the code is loaded onto a real processor and translated on the fly into the chip 's native instruction set . |
| 30 | He said that where total headcount was 126,000 at the end of fiscal year 1989 , over the last two years , the company has added 11,000 employees , primarily through acquisitions while reducing overall headcount so that at June 30 , headcount was 113,800 , for a total reduction of more than 23,000 since 1989 . |