Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |
| 32 | Jack looked doubtfully at the waxen face of his stepfather . |
| 33 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 34 | He looked doubtfully at the rain-filled skies . |
| 35 | ‘ He loves jumping , and he loves the atmosphere , especially at the indoor shows where it is more immediate — a packed arena with a receptive crowd seems to lift his performance . |
| 36 | To soften his feelings , however , we learned that the Professor from time to time gave him a fee which far exceeded the amount of the toll … just by the Bridge , turnstiles admitted foot-passengers to pass by different paths , intersecting the large extent of open ground , some of this led to Somers Town , Red Lion Street , etc … here and there , especially at the lower portion of the [ College ] ground , walls were standing , some of them being eight or ten feet high . ’ |
| 37 | Some of our colleges are losing staff to the tertiary colleges as Burnham , especially at the lower levels , compares unfavourably with F.E. scales . |
| 38 | His nephew , John de Grandisson ( 1292–1369 ) , became bishop of Exeter in 1327 and before his election had continued the family 's role in diplomacy , especially at the papal court . |
| 39 | The engineer may request , especially at the tender stage , full details of the proposed resources and the contractor' pricing notes . |
| 40 | ‘ As far as the second submission is concerned , I am not able to accept , especially at the interlocutory stage , the extreme view of medical autonomy advanced by the local health authority and the Official Solicitor . |
| 41 | Government should review the present low standard of internal audit within all levels of public sector administration , especially at the central government level . |
| 42 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |
| 43 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 44 | This evidence is surprisingly extensive , especially at the western end of the site , though more excavation is essential to clarify its distribution . |
| 45 | Jaurès worked for reconciliation — especially at the international level — and discouraged conflict . |
| 46 | Researchers , especially at the Gerontological Research Center in Bedford , Massachusetts , are at work exploring another property of centrophenoxine that is causing excitement generally among gerontologists . |
| 47 | In the course of the 1960s the boundaries of what counted as " English " began to expand as more interdisciplinary and joint programmes of study were offered , especially at the new universities and later at the polytechnics . |
| 48 | This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level . |
| 49 | But in general , and especially at the highest creative level , words were redundant . |
| 50 | Craigleith have produced a perfect card , winning all nine matches by more than the 2 per cent required — a very rare achievement , especially at the highest level . ‘ |
| 51 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 52 | The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer , especially at the very beginning of the development . |
| 53 | Outstanding successes followed in the 1960s , some alas to be only temporary , but some quite permanent especially at the northern and southern extents of the distribution of the disease . |
| 54 | The classes certainly do not mirror what you see on the British ballet stage , especially at the Royal Ballet . |
| 55 | However , the ‘ cross-boundary flow ’ adjustment has far-reaching implications for health care planning , in particular for equity and priorities , especially at the sub-regional level . |
| 56 | Even when considering the middle and working classes , though , we must not forget that mobility levels are still low enough to sustain different class cultures , especially at the extreme ‘ ends ’ of these classes in the upper middle class and the unskilled working class . |
| 57 | Having entered this Christian society the individual had to conform to its beliefs and to demonstrate conformity by attendance at Church , especially at the main feasts of the ecclesiastical year . |
| 58 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 59 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 60 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |