Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing wrong with that — in fact , without such precautions it would be hard to get a coherent programme together at all . |
| 2 | Mr Davison said : ‘ We are aware that they are taking a fairly careful look again at all the information . |
| 3 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 4 | She began to climb the staircase , but I stopped her , saying : ‘ Miss Kenton , please do n't think me unduly improper in not ascending to see my father in his deceased condition just at this moment . |
| 5 | It would be a more serious objection if there were no real truth there at all to which we can hope our judgements may approximate . |
| 6 | Psion also intends to implement a just-in-time strategy both at this site and at Psion Dacom to further reduce working capital requirements . |
| 7 | Of interest to us , however , is his attempt to address the question why , if the time of bleeding is the most fertile time , do women tend to shun male company just at this part of the cycle ? |
| 8 | And there was no bloody bobby there at all . |
| 9 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 10 | But it would be quite wrong to ascribe the failure to take socialist transformation further at this stage by establishing workers ' control in the nationalised industries to ‘ betrayal ’ on the part of the parliamentary leadership . |
| 11 | I always get the blame , I 'll be back in intensive care again at this rate , you mark my words , you should see the shambles they make of everything I ask them to do . |
| 12 | Lloyd George would never have wasted time there at all , but he might have chosen the Strand Magazine had he been left waiting upon a railway platform . |
| 13 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was a horrific crash , a terrible tragedy especially at this time of year . ’ |
| 14 | There is no substitute for good planning even at this early stage . |
| 15 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 16 | He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind . |
| 17 | It may however , be questioned , whether this role should be performed by a mixture of hereditary and life peers who make up the Lords ' membership or , indeed , whether there is an important role here at all . |
| 18 | You will have a super day out at any one of these , seeing many interesting birds , some very rare , in their natural habitats . |
| 19 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 20 | ‘ The board may prohibit a member in the course of the member 's relevant investment business from — ( a ) entering into transactions of any specified kind either at all or to any specified extent or in specified circumstances ; ( b ) soliciting business or business of a specified kind from , or except from , persons of a specified kind or in , or except in , specified circumstances ; ( c ) carrying on business in , or except in , a specified manner . |
| 21 | ‘ The board may prohibit a member in the course of the member 's relevant investment business from — ( a ) entering into transactions of any specified kind either at all or to any specified extent or in specified circumstances ; ( b ) soliciting business or business for a specified kind from , or accept from , persons of a specified kind or in , or except in , specified circumstances ; ( c ) carrying on business in , or except in , a specified manner . |
| 22 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 23 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |
| 24 | Even this solution has problems because although the zig-zag is an even number of stitches , depending on which part of the zig-zag is immediately below the ‘ V ’ it can give an irregular effect just at that point . |
| 25 | They were very surprised to see a young girl alone at that time of night . |
| 26 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 27 | I remembered all sorts of things and my young father hardly at all . |
| 28 | Intangible economic benefits : A large proportion of CMEA imports may have no suitable or readily equivalent Western substitute : the CMEA product mix is geared to the requirements of Soviet industry which , as we have noted in Chapter 2 , may differ from those in the West ; and Western equipment may require complementary products or particular production methods which can be introduced into the Soviet environment only at some effort and expense . |
| 29 | In view of the significance of the Elan Valley in later developments , it would perhaps be as well to sketch the local topography briefly at this point . |
| 30 | What on earth are you doing waking the whole world up at this time of night ? |