At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

At a certain point, reports of an IRA sniper operating in the area were allegedly given to the Army command centre.

At a very early period prior to 3000 BC, Nippur had become the centre of a political district of considerable extent.

At the start of each half, as well as after goals are scored, play is started with a pass from the centre of the field.

At that time Pergamon was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library ( Eumenes II ), second only to that in Alexandria,

At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.

At the centre of the Nouveau Jardin is Europe's highest garden fountain.

At the centre are the huge Marktkirche ( Market Church, preaching venue of the bishop of the Lutheran Landeskirche Hannovers ) and the Old Town Hall.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery, whose workshop was the premier centre for Florentine art at the time.

At that time, the city was a very important commercial centre and controlled a significant Mediterranean merchant fleet and navy.

At the same time, the Goetheanum developed as a wide-ranging cultural centre.

At the centre of the sling, a cradle or pouch is constructed.

At the same time, the university became a centre for the organised women's liberation movement, which emerged in the 1970s.

At first, the city was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR, as the city was a centre for Belarusian culture and politics for over a century.

At its centre was the Crystal Palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind.

At centre is Major General Heinz Guderian and at right is Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.

At the centre of the facade is a neoclassical projecting bow of three bays.

** At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.

At the centre of the society was the married couple, tusurthir.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.

At least a dozen men, some armed, are never far away from him.

At any rate, three men out of a six-man B-52 crew are required to copy down Wisman's go-to-war message.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

At what stage are social sciences then??

At least I should like them to know that I know these discounts are being made.

At Khrushchev's door, therefore, can be placed the primary blame but also at fault are those who permitted themselves to be intimidated.

At times, three ships a day from the Soviet bloc are unloading in Cuban ports.

At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being `` soft '', and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons.

At Cypress Gardens special bleachers are set up for photographers at water-ski shows and lovely models pose for pictures in garden settings.

At the moment, many of these are being pulled down.

At present, both the familiar cast acrylic and the newer extruded sheets are being used by sign manufacturers, with extruded now representing an estimated 10% of the total.

At some cities, this pick-up and delivery service is without additional charge, and, if you are budget-wise, when you are planning your itinerary, you will take advantage of these free delivery and collection stations in major cities within the larger European countries.

At one astronomical unit from the sun ( the Earth's distance ) the dust orbits are probably nearly circular.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Taiwan, which are ready and committed to move into the stage of self-sustaining growth.

At this time, however, there are signs that increased availability of mortgage credit will not act with the usual speed to stimulate a sharp rise in residential construction.

At the end of this pass, the table indicates which index words and electronic switches are not available for assignment to symbolic references.

At the conclusion of the washing, 8 liters of water at 90-degrees-F ( 32*0C. ) are automatically metered from the rinse reservoir to the washing tubs, 4 liters to each tub.

At this point the drains are readjusted so that the suds box drain will discharge directly into the waste line and the main tub drain is set at the 2-1/2 mark on the drain gauge.

At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.

At its most ecstatic moments, husband and wife are elevated far above worldly cares.

At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.