Example sentences of "[vb base] [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 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 4 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 5 | The numerous cracks and fissures in the walls , which on every side present themselves , denote that at no very distant period this disgrace to the parish in which it stands will effectively remove itself . |
| 6 | Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies . |
| 7 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 8 | The data also show that at the thicket stage in coniferous plantations the ground flora is much less diverse and dense than in control sites of similar age which consist of semi-natural mixed oak ( Quercus spp. ) stands . |
| 9 | I hope that at a later stage we can persuade the Minister that a compromise is possible , feasible and affordable . |
| 10 | These studies also predict that at a pressure somewhere between 2 × 10 6 bars and 5 × 10 6 bars an interface is encountered with liquid molecular hydrogen above and liquid metallic hydrogen beneath . |
| 11 | This certainly seems to be true if we consider that at the time the activity ( such as using a book ) takes place , the person concerned is certainly doing it in preference to doing anything else . |
| 12 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 13 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 14 | In practice , Rameau 's part-writing works perfectly well on period instruments , especially when we recall that at the Paris Opéra there were many more players on the outer than on the inner parts . |
| 15 | More money and more promotion wo n't bring him happiness and , I suspect that at the end of the day , neither will they satisfy you . |
| 16 | I suspect that at the moment he sees all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of committee work . |
| 17 | I suspect that at the back of his mind there lurked a phrase from Beowulf , about those very similar monsters Grendel and his mother : no hie faeder cunnon , ‘ men know of no father for them ’ . |
| 18 | We know that at a later date there were steps down to the river as Thorpe tells us that in his time there was a handsome flight of stone stairs remaining which extended from the Palace to the low water mark . |
| 19 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 20 | The memoirs were written in a very anti-communist phase of his life , and we know that at the time he received indirect assurances from the head of the Communist Party , Maurice Thorez , that no insurrection was being planned . |
| 21 | And they know about what 's happening to them , and know that at the end of the day , it does n't matter about what their behaviour is , it does n't matter about what happens to them , because nobody cares . |
| 22 | Rather , our results imply that at the preheadfold time of treatment ( 7.5d.p.c. ) , a certain degree of regional variation has already been specified at the level of rhombomere pairs ; retinoic acid is unable to override the specification choice of an odd- or even-numbered character . |
| 23 | I remember that at the first European Council which my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and I attended together , in Stuttgart , it was reaffirmed as a clear objective . |
| 24 | Assume that at the end of the investor 's time horizon there are two possible end states , the first in which the share price has doubled and the second in which it has halved . |
| 25 | To illustrate , suppose that at the beginning of the year a UK investor exchanges sterling for dollars to invest in US securities . |
| 26 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 27 | We note that at the time of going to press a restructuring of the advisory service is under consideration ( Leeds City Council 1991c ) . |
| 28 | Note that at the level of phonology we can abstract smaller elements such as the phoneme /g/ in glad , but such segments have no formal meaning . |
| 29 | Note that at the higher temperature there is a higher spread of speed . |
| 30 | I also believe that at the conference he will use all his persuasiveness to enable the European Community to move ahead . |