Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 2 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 3 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 4 | Otherwise you may find yourself later , as you sweep along on the actual business of writing , gradually drifting into producing quite another sort of book than the one you set out to write and in consequence disappointing readers ' expectations which at the beginning you had gone to trouble to arouse . |
| 5 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 6 | Traditionally pioneers in agriculture , these were the families which at the beginning of the nineteenth century concluded that the making of good cheese need not be confined to the high alpine dairies as was then generally accepted , but could be practised in the rich pasturelands of the Mittelland . |
| 7 | You see , all the things which at the moment seem strange to you about it become every day normality after a bit , so that it 's untrue to give you an answer in terms of the lack of space or the lack of change or the lack of food or any of the other things which make this so different from ordinary life . ’ |
| 8 | So no particular things which at the moment you would like divisional quality managers to take on . |
| 9 | I committed myself to a series of disjointed actions which at the moment of decision all seemed reasonable but which immediately afterwards were as terrifying as they were irrevocable . |
| 10 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 11 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 12 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |
| 13 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 14 | He was able to take characters who at the start seemed ordinary enough , if prone to human weaknesses and vices , and to elevate them into the world of the scarcely real , of adventures and encounters riddled with the absurd . |
| 15 | In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might . |
| 16 | Temporary classrooms are being built at two schools in Stroud for children who at the moment do n't have a school . |
| 17 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 18 | They are living under loose tented accommodation , some of them do n't have tented accommodation erm the , the country is hot , erm there is a shortage of water , not just at the camps but also to er Jordanian towns themselves at the moment . |
| 19 | ( d ) cancel any shares which at the date of the passing of the resolution have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person ; |
| 20 | Born and bred a Land Rover , but crossed with the might and muscle of a Range Rover , it 's just the machine for enterprising City types who at the end of the week want to swap Hampstead and Fulham for ambitious adventures to the ends of Britain 's motorways . |
| 21 | There are no medical facilities whatsoever at the camp . |