Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 2 | The route was wet , holds had to be dug out and they thought it Severe — the same grade Hargreaves and MacPhee had given their ascent of Deer Bield Crack ( one of the Lakeland 's hardest climbs at that time ) the previous year . |
| 3 | Robert , the mind literally boggles at those distances mine does , anyway . |
| 4 | Basically , The function is the same as for the Language Master — a recording can be made of written language which is displayed for the pupil — but the Audio Page runs for 4 minutes where the Language Master only provides at most about 10 seconds of time . |
| 5 | Finally , the ‘ intelligentsia ’ and scholarly circles — presumably attached to Leipzig University — in condemning Hess reportedly included some reproaches for Hitler for selecting such a ‘ mentally disturbed person as his possible successor ’ , though it was immediately added that most members of such circles were ‘ nevertheless convinced that the Führer no longer hears at all about the actual mood and situation within the Reich itself and that most things are kept from him ’ . |
| 6 | Indeed it scarcely reproduces at all . |
| 7 | A non-zero cosmological constant no longer seems at all unreasonable . |
| 8 | Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all . |
| 9 | He does n't talk to us about his problems — he scarcely talks at all . |
| 10 | And nowadays she hardly cries at all : the wedding is only weeks away . |
| 11 | Keef always laughs at that , an' then 'e wheezes a bit an' , like gasps for breath an' falls over . |
| 12 | There are situations , and there are types of relationships , in which one of these purposes becomes dominant , and the other hardly matters at all . |
| 13 | Such is the cost of the initial surgical admission that even if the surgical patients incurred no further costs at all after discharge from hospital it would be five years before the cumulative expenditure associated with sclerotherapy reached that of the operation . |
| 14 | Usually the right side is the purl side , while on the knit side the weaving hardly shows at all . |
| 15 | The committal — this is a preliminary hearing in a magistrates ' court and little information usually emerges at this stage . |
| 16 | The Profesor of Filth , soon to be star of a video , is a decent bloke , hardly blinds at all off the stage . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't impossible for love not to hurt but it usually does at some point , ’ she said with a sigh . |
| 18 | Moreover , in showing us what he loves about Tbe Faerie Queene , he shows us in embryo what he hardly knows at this point himself : the sort of books which he himself will excel at . |
| 19 | The Jewish civil year still begins at this time , but since the exodus from Egypt the Jewish ecclesiastical year has begun with the month Nisan at the spring equinox . |
| 20 | On the same date the exhibition of Ray Smith 's sculpture also closes at that space . |
| 21 | Although homoeopathy can work deeply into the organism , and can affect the deeper emotional , mental and spiritual levels , therapies more specifically aimed at developing the spiritual aspects of human beings may well be needed in addition as the root of the cancer problem often lies at this level . |
| 22 | The proportion of pupils with statements varies widely across the country , partly because of the LEAs ' differing policies on ‘ statementing ’ , but overall stands at some 1.7 per cent of the total population of statutory school age , with just over a fifth of these in ordinary rather than special schools . |
| 23 | As I argued in Chapter 5 , I am doubtful both whether such a condition really occurs at all , and whether , if it were to exist , drugs are ever likely to be developed which can help it . |
| 24 | It does not lend itself to the earlier analysis of symbolism which identified distinct abstract signifiers and concrete signifieds , since it simultaneously operates at both levels . |
| 25 | The discussion frequently ends at this point , but the response either way should be recorded . |
| 26 | It then looks at some of the ideas of the main proponents of action research , such as Stephen Kemmis , John Elliott and Jack Whitehead , with the author particularly recommending the latter ( unsurprisingly as he was her mentor ) . |
| 27 | It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning . |
| 28 | Eliot 's apocalyptic imagination again hints at those glimpses of street violence which he had revealed to Dobrée and Spender : |
| 29 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 30 | Incidentally there is no problem in proving the uniqueness of the positive gcd — given that a gcd actually exists at all . |