Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the annual review ( July 1984 ) of the members of the International Energy Agency , ( which was the body established to co-ordinate the response of the industrialised , non-Communist countries to the 1974 oil shock ) it was stated that , ‘ long-term prospects for meeting energy requirements and maintaining energy security are now better than at any time since 1973 . |
| 2 | Instead , they had a forty-five-minute audience , which Diana was extremely nervous about — more so than at any meeting with any leader before or since . |
| 3 | Never was that more so than at this moment when English is nearer than ever before to becoming a universally known language … |
| 4 | Shortage of resources remains a crucial determinant of standards of care , particularly at long-stay hospitals , and there is little sign that resources will improve much if at all in the next few years . |
| 5 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 6 | But it can not last for long because at this level our exporters ca n't compete for sales across the Atlantic . |
| 7 | The Earl had ruled Cornwall almost as an independent principality , separate from the royal administration of the English shires , and Henry was doubtless glad of the opportunity to integrate it into his system of government especially since at this period production of tin from the Cornish mines was booming . |
| 8 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 9 | Rather than at all , where would you be |
| 10 | She was reduced to saying something — anything — rather than at this moment contemplate a trip to Bruges with a man whose mere offer of a lift home had shattered her poise so completely . |
| 11 | But even if the old partnership of Christian Democrats , Socialists and Liberals gets a working majority , the serious opposition parties have made their point more effectively than at any time since 1948 . |
| 12 | DISCOUNTING the scowl that greeted the outcome of his declaration at Ilford , Mike Gatting has been in better humour lately than at any time in my experience . |
| 13 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 14 | There is , of course , the immediate possibility that an ethnic factor , ‘ Basqueness ’ , identifies the group with Basque aspirations and so provides a dynamic rarely if at all available elsewhere ; and that this factor makes Mondragon a special case and not of any general relevance . |
| 15 | Specs like these were destined for file servers in large companies , or to grace the MD 's desk and be used rarely if at all . |
| 16 | Alternating metre rarely if at all allows strings of four or more syllables with four or more adjacent , rising degrees of stress , whereas foot-based metre is " endlessly modulated " ( p. 124 ) by such patterns . |
| 17 | The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all . |
| 18 | Indeed it illustrates its ‘ worst case , scenario with the observation that the ‘ major changes ’ in farming would ‘ benefit water quality little if at all in the short to medium term ’ . |
| 19 | Moreover , in spite of massive changes on the key development sites , the environment of the East End , where most ordinary mortals live on council estates and streets in and around the busy A13 , or in Canning Town or in North Southwark , has changed little if at all . |
| 20 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 21 | Britain 's productive capacity was falling more rapidly than at any time since the dawn of the industrial age . |
| 22 | The current downturn in the housing market has now lasted for three years — four in some parts of the south — and house prices have fallen further than at any time in modern UK history . |
| 23 | Defending the prescription rises , Dr Mawhinney said 80pc of prescribed items were now dispensed free , more than at any time since prescription charges were re-introduced in 1968 . |
| 24 | Thus Adorno 's major contribution dates from a period described in the previous chapter as one of relative situational stability and consensus , when , more than at any other time , the machinery of ‘ mass culture ’ worked to considerable effect . |
| 25 | Everyone 's perpetual concern to safeguard himself against having to take legal responsibility necessitates a fearful expenditure of effort , paper , ink , and time , slows down the transaction of business , removes from the provincial and district agencies all feelings of independence , and teaches them to act surreptitiously if at all . |
| 26 | The Tories ' new charges for eye and dental checks have led to a 30pc drop in tests performed , this has resulted in eye and dental diseases being detected later if at all , making them more difficult and expensive to treat . |
| 27 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 28 | The average price paid by industrial and commercial consumers declined only slightly if at all in real terms over the first ten years of nationalisation , but electricity usage in industry was probably less price-elastic than in most uses , and other factors were the main stimuli to sales growth . |
| 29 | A description by an ancillary of the abilities of the school 's stencil cutter or Caramate slide-tape presenter can be the key to innovation , because the teacher suddenly recognizes what is possible , as distinct from a lot of theory whose implementation he has previously understood imperfectly if at all . |
| 30 | A high proportion of these births were pre-maritally conceived , also as at most times in the past . |