Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 2 | Still , he reckons that the bigger the mainframe , the cheaper relatively it is to buy — 10% cheaper , in fact , at the top than at the bottom end of the range . |
| 3 | Why give out the message that certain sexual activities are risky whilst at the same time conveniently ignoring the real needs of lesbians ? |
| 4 | In Japan , the relationship between maternal age and late fetal death ratios is " J " shaped at most birth orders , but the pattern is more variable in the two central European countries , where the ratios are either increasing with successive age classes ( beginning with the youngest ) as the first , third ( except at age group 25–29 years ) and sixth and higher orders , or the relation is " J " shaped ( somewhat lower at ages 20–24 than at ages under 20 and increasing thereafter , with the highest risks at the oldest ages ) as at the second and fourth orders of reverse " J " shaped as at the fifth birth order . |
| 5 | The protocol at Ingard House was far more elaborate than at the head office of the bank . |
| 6 | But Christine felt vexed when at the next Pack Meeting Sarah lost points for the Six through being a slowcoach . |
| 7 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 8 | It is subdivided into three geographical and administrative regions which are independent except at the highest level . |
| 9 | His leadership was never less disputed than at the present moment . |
| 10 | This makes monitoring and evaluation more difficult except at the casual , ‘ How do you feel it went ? ’ level . |
| 11 | Upon termination of the retainer , the client is entitled to be handed back all relevant papers ( ie documents prepared by the solicitor for the benefit of and paid for by the client , eg instructions to counsel , copy letters to third parties etc , and documents prepared by a third party during the retainer and sent to the solicitor other than at the latter 's expense , eg vouchers for the solicitor 's disbursements ) and other property which may be in the solicitor 's possession , though the solicitor does have a lien in respect of his unpaid costs . |
| 12 | If you repay the loan early , the interest outstanding as at the next repayment date is refunded to you . |
| 13 | In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’ |
| 14 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |