Example sentences of "as [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 2 | She describes the incident that sparked off , or at least increased , her concern about the content of contemporary television programmes , as happening at the height of the Honest to God debate . |
| 3 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 4 | Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell . |
| 5 | Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent . |
| 6 | The statistical resemblance is measured by comparing mean values and ranges of actual and simulated sequences , as well as looking at the distribution of runs of wet or dry days . |
| 7 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 8 | Many authorities regard the Monoplacophora as lying at the root of the other molluscan groups ; gastropods , cephalopods and even bivalves may have been derived from them . |
| 9 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 10 | But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development . |
| 11 | Well that 's something that a as a teacher we 're erm in my school we 're constantly saying t to the pupils I mean if they ha they have a they have a certain responsibility t to tidy up after them and t to try and keep their work area tidy that 's not the same as er as cleaning at the end of the day as sweeping up all all the dust and and so on . |
| 12 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 13 | McEwan and Sylvester ( 1984 ) describe the work as beginning at the point where words fail by creating ‘ … evocations of mood and sensation more than visual records ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 14 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 15 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 16 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 17 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 18 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |
| 19 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |
| 20 | Gains or losses from this notional disposal are treated as accruing at the time of the intra-group transfer . |
| 21 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 22 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |