Example sentences of "this at the " in BNC.

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1 But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it .
2 If you both want the father to be present at the birth , ask about arrangements for this at the hospital as early as you can .
3 I 'm not sure that a radial-arm saw is accurate enough for this at the best of times , but , at the moment , mine rattles up and down its rails like a train in the sidings , and is definitely not fit for the job .
4 In urban areas especially , major developments place sudden and immense extra demands on the transport infrastructure — but no one considers this at the planning stages .
5 Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women .
6 ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ?
7 But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling .
8 If you know your height and weight , write this at the top .
9 I 'm writing this at the start of the war in the Gulf .
10 Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service .
11 If you require delivery of your car to the airport into which you are flying , please state this at the time of booking .
12 Nations have to do this at the same time as they keep up economic growth , or accept a drop in standards of living .
13 I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight .
14 We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction .
15 I think Alec realised this at the beginning .
16 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
17 Traditional library instruction has made considerable use of the lecture method for large groups , the guided tour for smaller groups , and individual help to the student who asks for this at the information desk .
18 Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born .
19 At the same time she has two babies ( one in each arm , asleep ) ; all this at the same time .
20 I did not know this at the time .
21 We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) .
22 It should be sent ( or preferably taken ) as soon as possible , together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) which you will have been given by the Registrar of Births and Deaths , to the local Social Security Office , and as in most cases there is an entitlement to a National Insurance death grant , application can be made for this at the same time .
23 Two swing eighth notes resemble this triplet figure : *** Sometimes you might see this at the beginning of a chart : ***** In some texts , you might find the rhythm written as *** but it 's not actually played like that .
24 Once again , to play this at the correct tempo you should play it metrically , with great care given to the evenness of each note and to the left-hand fingering .
25 Gary Moore uses an idea similar to this at the end of the first verse of the track Story Of The Blues , from his ‘ After Hours ’ album .
26 Put this at the bottom of a deep casserole , which must not be much bigger than the piece of meat , which you should then put in with the calf 's foot on top .
27 In Scotland there are only a few who might in the future provide this at the top level .
28 It 's a good idea to be clear on this at the outset ; it 's also a good idea to resist the temptation to start shooting whatever catches your eye the moment you arrive .
29 Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time .
30 I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it .
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