Example sentences of "as at " in BNC.
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| 1 | women are twice as at risk from infection as men . |
| 2 | ( Figures correct as at Feb. 1991 ) . |
| 3 | At this palace , as at the other , servility shows its face and performs its tricks . |
| 4 | His story begins at a time when , as at other times in this century , the patriciate , and the merely rich , had slipped down into marked collusion with the smart , with upstarts and bohemians . |
| 5 | A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day … |
| 6 | As at Buckland , all of the original divisions have been removed to make one long , characterless room , from which all trace of its former features has disappeared . |
| 7 | Much re-Tudorisation of genuinely ancient buildings was carried out , as at the Greyhound and Punchbowl in Bilston , Staffs . |
| 8 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 9 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 10 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 11 | Traditionally , the notion of personal response and what the Newbolt Report called ‘ literature as a living thing ’ were regarded by all schools as at the heart of English study , but there is no place for them in Zapp 's perspective . |
| 12 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 13 | In Blackburn , when Queen Elizabeth and Clitheroe grammar schools meet for their annual contests , the fierce but friendly local rivalry is as intense as at any of the better-known great North-western derby matches . |
| 14 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |
| 15 | Defence must be Gordon 's main worry , however , as at times yesterday , notably when Shaun Edwards found an ocean of space to lay on a try for Andy Platt , the tourists fell short of decent club standards . |
| 16 | The result is a genuine triumph , thanks to a troupe of singers , the same cast as at York , willing to give their best in attitudes ranging from completely recumbent to perilous perching on ladder or chaise-longue ; dragging themselves around on all fours and wrapping themselves in curtains ; and generally behaving as though the entire cast ( not just the noble lovers , as in the script ) is ripe for the psychiatrist 's couch . |
| 17 | As at all his power stations , Scott faced the building in a fine Worcestershire brick that has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown . |
| 18 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 19 | As at Sheffield , the margin of defeat was surprising . |
| 20 | Nonetheless his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished . |
| 21 | Sainsbury launched its Eftpos in November 1987 and now accepts Switch as a debit card at terminals in all 243 of its stores which operate barcode scanning , as well as at all 40 of its petrol stations . |
| 22 | The gossip flows in , as at all meeting-places in a largely illiterate environment . |
| 23 | ( a ) Bag Enderby Attractive small village , where Tennyson 's father was vicar ( as well as at Somersby ) . |
| 24 | Abroad , therefore , as at home , the future of ‘ Thatcherism ’ looked in some doubt , and the vision of ‘ the strong state ’ , based on free enterprise and nuclear defence , that much feebler . |
| 25 | On this basis Polaris , and even Trident , could be retained as at least a bargaining counter . |
| 26 | Currently , Radio I devotes over 5,000 hours a year to recording musicians in its own studios , as well as at live concert performances . |
| 27 | Religious hope flickers , as at Magnus Martyr , but the city crowds out the city churches , and going to the apparent sources of the religious life which seemed to hold promise in Lower Thames Street , Eliot found himself unable to sustain hope . |
| 28 | ‘ Alone in a crowd ’ is never so intense as at the movies , and never so open to sudden dislocation . |
| 29 | Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ . |
| 30 | By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 . |