Example sentences of "[verb] [that] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The dialectally divergent spellings suggest that at the very least three written English versions of the tale existed : an East Midland original , a south-eastern copy and the West Midland copy that we now have . |
| 3 | Fisons adds that at no time did it use ‘ beer kegs ’ for storage during the manufacture of Imferon and that the bulk intermediate storage vessels , which looked like beer kegs , have now been replaced . |
| 4 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend will know that at the end of November we made a number of requests to the Government of Libya . |
| 6 | It did matter but we did n't know that at the time did we ? |
| 7 | Ortega promised that at the next congress , scheduled for 1995 , the DN would be elected by individual votes directly cast in a secret ballot and that a woman would be elected to the leadership . |
| 8 | The Paris show demonstrated that at a much lower level delightful drawings by well known names can still be bought at a fraction of the price of a painting by the same artist . |
| 9 | You 'll have a chance to come back on whether we have got the wrong impression on that , I mean I recall Mr Heselton 's quite clearly , but let me pursue that at a stage further if if we take that as our impression of what you have said collectively , and you are asked to make provision for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , again collectively in the Greater York area , and I 'm addressing this question to the districts , what provision would you make in your districts of your district figure in the Greater York area ? |
| 10 | ‘ You might have trouble explaining that at the inquest , my lad . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 13 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 14 | Checking his purchases against her list as he approached the checkout , he was pleased to find that at no point did the two coincide . |
| 15 | In yesterday 's edition of The Northern Echo it was reported that at a meeting of Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee Labour councillor Eric Turner criticised a fellow councillor , Derek McVickers . |
| 16 | Ministerial Flannel IT HAS been reported that at the launch of National Dyslexia Week , the Duke of Westminster , entering into the spirit of the occasion ( and surely nothing else was intended ) , introduced the junior education minister and Darlington MP . |
| 17 | The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move . |
| 18 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 19 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 20 | It is recommended that at the start of a particular project , the project manager should draw up a set of guidelines for filling in module headers . |
| 21 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 22 | The Xinhua news agency reported that at a meeting with Li Peng soon after the Kazakh party 's arrival , the Chinese Premier called for enhanced relations in all fields and said that the recently completed rail link would help bilateral relations in the economic and trade fields . |
| 23 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 24 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 25 | I realized that at a particularly good moment , at five forty-eight this morning . |
| 26 | Do you think that at a time like this I am afraid of words ? … if he dies tonight there will always be a gulf at my side , a gulf into which I must never fall ’ ( p. 87 ) . |
| 27 | Geoffrey , discussions about the Common Market , for example , tend to be carried out using rational arguments based on economics and legal principles , but do n't you think that at the deepest level international relations depend on national characteristics ? |
| 28 | But now these controls over processions have been erm extended to cover static large meetings , and erm I would think that at the back of the draftsman 's mind was the spectre of mass pickets , things like that . |
| 29 | Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it . |
| 30 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |