Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research aims to find out whether there is a specifically Scottish corporatism that can be distinguished from that found at the UK level . |
| 2 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 3 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 4 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 5 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 6 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 7 | For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul ! |
| 8 | This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township : |
| 9 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 10 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 11 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 12 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
| 13 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 15 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 16 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 17 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 18 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
| 19 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 20 | However this happened at the end of a fraught week . |
| 21 | Another hit the wall , another landed at the feet of the man with the axe . |
| 22 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 23 | In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA . |
| 24 | This started at the centre line of Crampton Road and although most of the interlaced track was in Tramway No. 15 , the first few yards were in Tramway 16 . |
| 25 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 26 | This proceeded at a faster pace in services than in industry . |
| 27 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
| 28 | This struck at the root of the idea that nobody need be poor if they conscientiously engaged in economic activity . |
| 29 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 30 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |