Example sentences of "writing at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 2 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 3 | The German biologist August Weismann , writing at the end of the last century , argued that two independent processes of cell division start from the fertilized egg . |
| 4 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 5 | Writing at the time of de-Stalinization in Russia , when the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party was in session , and Stalin 's body was evicted from the Mausoleum , Isaac Deutscher used the words ‘ The official , heavily edited and misleading reports of the Congress … ’ . |
| 6 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 7 | James Bright ( 1958 ) , writing at the time Blauner was conducting the bulk of his research , reached a radically different conclusion to Blauner , finding that ’ … automation had reduced the skill requirements of the operating work force , and occasionally of the entire factory force ’ ( Bright 1958 , 8 ) , and a more recent study by Nichols and Armstrong ( 1976 ) of a chemical factory in Britain shows just how much routine unskilled labouring work such continuous-process factories still generate . |
| 8 | Writing at the same time as Russell appealed to President Wilson , MacDonald insisted that it was disarmament , democracy and international socialism that provided the key to stable peace : ‘ Then we shall want no League of Nations to Enforce Peace , with its dangers and surrenders to militarism . ’ |
| 9 | Lord 's secretly warned Surrey in writing at the end of the 1991 season . |
| 10 | Henry Salt , writing at the end of the nineteenth century when laws protecting animals were firmly in place , complained that , |
| 11 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 12 | Such details should be supplied at the earliest possible opportunity when the booking is being made , and if arrangements have been made in advance ( either by letter or by telephone ) , they should be confirmed in writing at the point of reception . |
| 13 | Unless specifically agreed by us in writing at the time you make your booking , we can not accept any booking which is made conditional upon a special request being satisfied . |
| 14 | The book is also universally regarded as McGahern 's masterpiece , a view probably best expressed by playwright Tom Kilroy who described ‘ Amongst Women ’ as ‘ one of the most significant achievements in Irish fiction ’ and suggested that McGahern ‘ is obviously writing at the fullness of his power . ’ |
| 15 | In conclusion , Jones notes the potential value of explicit instruction on the nature of writing at the preschool level for subsequent success in school . |
| 16 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 17 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 18 | There was more writing at the bottom of the sheet . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) Where a licensing board gives reasons in writing at the request of a party to the hearing , the board shall give copies of those reasons to all other parties to the hearing . |
| 20 | Module leaders are responsible for informing students in writing at the beginning of a module of the assessment structure , the number of pieces of coursework required , their weightings and the deadline for their submission . |
| 21 | At a thanksgiving service her second in command was writing at the top of the steps for one of the leaders to arrive . |
| 22 | It all depends what he 's writing at the time . ’ |
| 23 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title . |
| 25 | As one contemporary , writing at the end of William 's reign , put it , " One would have thought that the Distinction of Parties was quite worn out , when the Church had quitted the Doctrines of Passive Obedience and Non-resistance " , and had joined with the Whigs and Dissenters to call James to account for his maladministration and establish a liberty of conscience . |
| 26 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 27 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 28 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 29 | The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth . |