Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world entered a long-term period of recession and chronic unemployment , both of which at the time of writing seem to have become endemic to our advanced societies . |
| 2 | Secondary trading in the government bond market is dominated by the gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) of which at the time of writing there are eighteen . |
| 3 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 4 | Even if Lauda had been James 's only opponent , there was no way in which at the beginning of the season James could foresee the possibility of a championship . |
| 5 | No one could but admire the fortitude with which he bore his last painful illness and the way in which at the same time he stuck to his constituency work which he performed with great conscientiousness . |
| 6 | ‘ in a public place called … ‘ 'Public place ’ includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access whether on payment or otherwise ( section 1(4) Prevention of Crime Act 1953 ) . |
| 7 | A Parisian-born chef of the early nineteenth century brings to perfection — or to what at the time is considered perfection — a grandiose dish of sole in a white wine and cream sauce with a ceremonial garnish of freshwater crayfish , fried gudgeons , oysters , mushrooms and prawns impaled on ornamental skewers . |
| 8 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 9 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |