Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their survival value is clear : when severe injuries first happen it may be more important to get away at all costs than to stop and attend to them . |
| 2 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 3 | It is also important to point out at this stage that Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are much more restricted than Halliday 's notions of given/new : |
| 4 | Listen , we were really lucky getting home at all . |
| 5 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 6 | She was an attractive , kind , intelligent and above all practical person whom I was particularly glad to have around at such a time . |
| 7 | ONE allowance which looks almost certain to disappear altogether at some point in the not-too-distant future , judging from its treatment in the Budget , is the married couple 's allowance , or MCA . |