Example sentences of "at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 11.45pm the two men listened and waited in silence . |
| 2 | At 6.40am the men are woken ; by seven they are up . |
| 3 | The video war in Europe began when Philips , the Dutch firm , complained to the EEC that the Japanese were dumping video recorders in Europe at below the cost of manufacture . |
| 4 | However , recent CBI figures show UK investment at below the German level ; I suspect high interest rates are a major deterrent . |
| 5 | A major reason why so many people live on low incomes is that national insurance benefits , such as old-age pensions and unemployment pay , are paid at below the income support and housing benefit levels . |
| 6 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 7 | It is , however , within the discretion of the Faculty to make offers at below the ‘ going rate ’ or minimum rate . |
| 8 | Reduction in police overtime the force is already running at below the minimum levels it considers necessary . |
| 9 | At 7.00am the next morning I drove across London in shock and second gear . |
| 10 | At 2pm the fashion show takes to the floor in the ballroom . |
| 11 | She did n't seem at all the worse for drink . ’ |
| 12 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 13 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 14 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 15 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 16 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 17 | At much the same time the Ryder Cup was also being knocked from the United States ' grasp . |
| 18 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
| 19 | What is true is that large firms also destroy large numbers of jobs at much the same rate as they create them , whereas small firms have a lower rate of job destruction . |
| 20 | A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 21 | But in manuscript B of ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ ( written at much the same time ) just this idea is being entertained . |
| 22 | At much the same time , George Cowley was being treated to a very fine Malt whisky by Peter Hogan , in Hogan 's elegantly furnished office , in the heart of Whitehall . |
| 23 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 24 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 25 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |
| 26 | This is aimed at much the same audience as Graphics Works , but takes a difference approach by including Microsoft Publisher , along with Arts & Letters Apprentice 3.1 and Halo Desktop Imager ( for image capture conversion and improvement ) . |
| 27 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 28 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 29 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
| 30 | At much the same time , positivism came under a powerful and sustained political and theoretical critique associated with the ‘ Justice Model ’ . |