Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time .
2 But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening .
3 ‘ It would be impracticable for the DoH at this stage to create a standing forum for residential care as whole .
4 ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . )
5 Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection .
6 The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran .
7 She wished she was anywhere but Grantley at this moment .
8 For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education .
9 The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country .
10 Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country .
11 Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time .
12 As the US Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on 22 October 1951 : The security interests of the United States at this time would be greatly benefited if the British Commonwealth of Nations could achieve once more a state of political and military solidarity under strong and effective leadership by the United Kingdom ; failing this , wholehearted support of United States military policies must be obtained from the several members of the British Commonwealth through other means .
13 Shevardnadze at this point attempted to restrain the fighting , negotiating with Ardzinba by telephone .
14 De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] .
15 Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House .
16 These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald .
17 In many ways the most valuable product of the Weald at this time was timber , much of which was exported as sawn wood and fuel .
18 I duly enrolled Sue at another dancing school .
19 A quiz night follows on Friday at same time .
20 Among the courses I took were Old English , Middle English , Old Norse , English Philology , and Phonetics ( this last course was taught by and , who were among the senior teachers in the Phonetics Department of U.C.L. at that time ) .
21 ALTHOUGH the world around us here in Milton Keynes at any rate has become , forgive the word , technological , nobody knows damn all about science .
22 In the end it was a battle he was destined to win , and , in the process , to become the first man since Nick Faldo at this year 's P.G.A .
23 To quote Gitlin at some length ,
24 Every Saturday at this time .
25 He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple .
26 Fisher thought that Ramsey at this interview was ‘ gloriously analytical and dispassionate ’ and that his point about weight in the North had force .
27 Even so , most of the pottery made in Crete at this time , including Knossos itself , was rather carelessly decorated .
28 Whatever was wrong with Ken at that time , Andrew Ray is convinced it was n't sex .
29 Leslie Phillips speaks affectionately of Ken at this time .
30 But memories of Ken at this time still tend to revolve more around the fun .
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