Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was an accident everyone at the marine conservation society had been dreading . |
| 12 | " 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 . " |