Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Political membership of each of the industrial training boards will therefore act as a training ground for politicians , who will then be able to use this expertise in helping to shape and develop this aspect of the political debate at both the local and national level . |
| 32 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 33 | We must continue to study the new centralised global environment at both the theoretical and the practical levels . |
| 34 | However , it is difficult to agree with those historians who see 1688 – 9 as a major watershed in early modern English history , which altered the basic issues of political life at both the national and local level . |
| 35 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 36 | And normal adult volunteers , given growth hormone derived from DNA at twice the normal dose , have developed raised blood-sugar levels . |
| 37 | The participant orientation finds expression in citizens ' beliefs that they can influence government at both the national and local level . |
| 38 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 39 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 40 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 41 | I believe the world cricket authorities have got their act right by bringing in South Africa into the World Cup at virtually the eleventh hour and the IRB should not be stuck in the mud . |
| 42 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 43 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 44 | The descent spiral would bring them out from the cloud at almost the exact point where the mysterious Sakkratian doctor had been located by the Cell . |
| 45 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 46 | Strachan feels Leeds are running into form at just the right time for the most daunting task of manager Howard Wilkinson 's four-year reign . |
| 47 | Robert Dunlop appears to be hitting form at just the right time and overall he is in second place for tomorrow 's Superbike races with a best speed of 118.85mph as opposed to Fogarty 's 121.65 which is the fastest lap of practice . |
| 48 | Five of the last nine fixtures of the season are against sides embroiled in the relegation struggle , and Fazackerley believes United are running into form at just the right time . |
| 49 | As for the merits of the original illustrations as works of art , to my own taste at least the first impressions were of a certain period quality — with Wade 's occasional curvaceous nudes and sports car profiles intruded into the abstract geometries bringing memories of Victor Vasarely 's more lamentable lapses into commercial vulgarity , In the end , however , Wade 's sheer enthusiasm and invention persuaded me into a renewed fascination . |
| 50 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
| 51 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
| 52 | The fourth point is the one that requires the greatest skill because it presupposes that you apply the hook at precisely the right time . |
| 53 | Equally , he has been monitoring petitions organised by various bodies and puts the signature level at above the 100,000 mark . |
| 54 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
| 55 | He pointed out that even in the original form which it took when Cocks v. Thanet District Council was decided , section 69(1) conferred a measure of discretion on the local authority since in principle at least the local authority could choose between the three methods of discharging its duty which were set out in paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) . |
| 56 | Yet the prospects for the people who live in blighted cities are bleak unless as a bare minimum there is a recognition across the political spectrum of the specificity and the extent of racial inequity in both the UK and the USA , a reconsideration of democratic involvement at both the local state and national state levels , and an attempt made to locate urban policy within local economic strategy ; urban policy needs to be conceptually disentangled from regional policy . |
| 57 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 58 | Burton 's approach can be seriously criticized on the grounds that he pays little attention to such problems as the globalization of capital , class struggle or ideology , and that he often appears to confuse society and system at both the descriptive and the conceptual levels . |
| 59 | The operator must keep the blade in contact with the stone at just the right pressure with his fingers . |
| 60 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |