Example sentences of "that at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 2 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 3 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 4 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 5 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 6 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 7 | And although the Newsons concede the chicken and egg possibility — do you smack a child because he is delinquent , or is he delinquent because he is smacked ? — they argue that their findings do not support the old belief that sparing the rod spoils the child , but suggest that at the very least , mothers who smack do not succeed in producing non-delinquent children . |
| 8 | ‘ Is it safe to do that , knowing one outcome may be that at the end of the process we exclude sexual abuse ? |
| 9 | I do not believe that at the end of a week in which we have honed a new policy we are going to even contemplate bargaining that away in smoke-filled rooms with Paddy Ashdown , David Owen , or anyone else . ’ |
| 10 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 11 | This means that at the moment it is being used closest to the hook , where presentation and visibility are vital factors and , because it is so different to nylon , many users have problems knotting it . |
| 12 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 13 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 14 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
| 15 | Rabkrin ( the Central Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ) calculated that at the start of 1923 from 20 to 26 per cent of all village Soviet business lay in this sphere , whereas cultural and commune activities took up only 5 to 10 per cent of their time . |
| 16 | Yet I think that at the subconscious and half-conscious levels he was a heavy weight upon me of a perhaps oppressive or repressive kind . |
| 17 | His nonconformist origin found it strange , if not reprehensible , that at the main service of the day no one but the priest took the sacrament . |
| 18 | He once defined the Anglican doctrine of apostolic succession to several Lutherans so that at the end they could be heard saying ‘ Hear , Hear ’ . |
| 19 | He said that at the recent mission in Cambridge Billy Graham had taught the grossest doctrines . |
| 20 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 21 | The second showed that at the other pole is the city . |
| 22 | Armanjani reported to me that at the height of his powers our man sometimes accompanied a two hour programme of film trailers spliced together . |
| 23 | It had been agreed that at the General Election which would follow the end of the emergency period , there would no ‘ coupons ’ , pacts or other Party arrangements . |
| 24 | No wonder , then , that at the cessation of Lend-Lease , which had until VJ Day bridged the gap in the British accounts , Keynes could talk of a ‘ financial Dunkirk ’ . |
| 25 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 26 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 27 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 28 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 29 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 30 | But it should be added that at the press preview , I seemed to be only one of several spectators who chose to devote themselves during these scenes to a meticulous scrutiny of their shoes . |