Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces .
2 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 .
3 Forces conspire to push you onto the arête itself at the point where the overlap is reached , although good protection can be arranged to ease the passage of a couple of moves up the gently overhanging right wall of the buttress .
4 At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda .
5 Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people .
6 Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over .
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 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 .
9 The festival 's aim is to promote interesting activities in the countryside which at the same time encourage environmental awareness and boost the local economy .
10 Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain .
11 That God is personal by being tri-personal , they would say , means that in God the activity which at the human level must be divided between separate individual selves can be contained at the divine level within one being .
12 In the year 1184 , an event took place at the Palace which at the time must have sent a ripple through the whole country for Richard , Archbishop of Canterbury , the man who had succeeded Thomas Becket , died here at Halling .
13 Apart from the fact they at the end .
14 When the piece of meat dropped from the fork everyone at the table exploded into laughter except the Colonel , who said , ‘ Nessy ! behave yourself . ’
15 A classic study on short term verbal recall seemed to show that reading highly emotional words impairs memory , a finding which at the time seemed to support notions of repression .
16 Here was a lady who at the age of 50 had certainly decided to quit while she was ahead , and her moving and musically thoughtful recital confirmed it .
17 In addition to a claim for capital loss or loss of profits , a claim can be made for any consequential loss which falls within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale , i.e. loss of a type which at the time of the contract could reasonably have been predicted by both parties as liable ( i.e. not unlikely ) to occur in the event of the breach .
18 In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients .
19 ( 2 ) Where an application is made in accordance with Rule 15 by a body which at the date of the application is already recognised under these Rules and the Council has neither granted nor refused a new recognition by the time when the body 's existing recognition would , apart from this paragraph , expire in accordance with paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , the existing recognition shall not expire at that time but shall continue in force until a new recognition is granted or refused .
20 The gradual loss of alternating classes , such as ( pull ) is also related to merger patterns , as the end result of this long historical process is loss of a distinction which at the moment is still socially functional .
21 A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did .
22 It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks .
23 By the 1870s heating was done by Bunsen burners rather than furnaces ; and a laboratory which at the beginning of the century had been as good as any was now ‘ a mere makeshift ’ or a ‘ noble relic ’ .
24 A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength .
25 It was an accident everyone at the marine conservation society had been dreading .
26 " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . "
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