Example sentences of "at [adj] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first , which sampled the upper part of the extrusive lava layer , had to be abandoned at 500 m because of technical problems . |
| 2 | The signing was unorthodox , many of the gestures modified and difficult to read ; there was no fingerspelling at all other than of first letters of names . |
| 3 | Now , it is not at all surprising that in the 70s both the deep ecologists and the animal liberationists were slow to see that need . |
| 4 | It is not at all unlikely that at the conquest , Mehmed II appointed someone mufti in the newly conquered city ; and since the sources seem not to mention the appointment of anyone else to the post , it may possibly be that it was made an for Hizir Bey . |
| 5 | Despite the findings of the Dragon Project and other workers over the years , it is still too early to be at all dogmatic as to the nature of the energies at ancient sites or how they might operate . |
| 6 | The consequences , as pointed out in Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1308 in the Court of Appeal , is that all acts taken under the clause prior to judgment remain undisturbed but that future ones will , assuming the successful party chooses to rely on the judgment , be unenforceable. 8 Consideration In any contract there has to be consideration but the question which has frequently arisen in restraint of trade cases is whether the court is at all concerned as to the adequacy of the particular consideration in the instant case . |
| 7 | The critical dimensions of the transformational effort were starting with a vision that was at first unclear or at least insufficiently communicated , focusing too much on cost reduction and not enough on developing a new state , trying to function without adequate transition-management structures , and consciously intervening in the matrix-management issues until they became acute . |
| 8 | The Central Committee was at first unsympathetic but on 10 October , at a meeting which Lenin attended , it was resolved to make armed insurrection the order of the day . |
| 9 | Never had they seen so much enquiry , so much question and answer , so much deployment of grey cells at one extreme and of gut intuition at the other . |
| 10 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 11 | It may reassure your readers who need protection from reality , but grown-ups must find it at best sloppy and at worst malicious . |
| 12 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 13 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 14 | In the last of these veins , Harman acknowledges , ‘ The problem , on the surface at least , is the persistence , the seriousness , with which an intelligence of this order employs devices that seem to be at best witty and at worst trivial . ’ |
| 15 | The Scottish Office proposals to publish the information as part of a policy to tell parents more about schools are at best valueless and at worst dangerous , the committee says . |
| 16 | However the ‘ correct ’ economic policies are at best subjective and in any case other political considerations frequently come into play . |
| 17 | Instead of taking decisive action , however , the cabinet 's reaction was at best ineffective and at worst irresponsible . |
| 18 | Empirical therapy with class I antiarrhythmic drugs ( quinidine , procainamide , disopyramide ) was once widely practised but has been shown to be at best ineffective and at worst dangerous . |
| 19 | He was no longer indifferent to the cars around him — they had become alien and aggressive , peopled by spectres whose driving was at best incompetent and at worst downright criminal . |
| 20 | He accused successive Education Secretaries of serving the UK poorly , listening only partially , and having ‘ an apparent determination to push through so-called reforms with a consultation process which is at best minimal and at worst cynical . ’ |
| 21 | This is the complement of many people 's memories of being in school as a pupil : one or two teachers , and a handful of ‘ high spots ’ , stand out against a background that was , for many , at best unmemorable and at worst something to be deliberately forgotten . |
| 22 | This account is at best naive and at worst apologetic for the behaviour of the Organization 's largest member — the United States . |
| 23 | ‘ Research , in the context of Brixton , was at best irrelevant and at worst a tool in the hands of the enemy … the enemy , of course , varying with the personal perspective of the speaker … |
| 24 | I repeat that the Home Secretary will rely on Bills like this , which are at best irrelevant and at worst unreasonable . |
| 25 | The earlier one , on the Eurodisc label , was disappointing mainly on account of the choral singing of the Leipzig Radio Chorus which was at best lustreless and at worst inadequate . |
| 26 | Disgruntled governors who feel , rightly or wrongly , that they are not fully informed about the school can become at best difficult and at worst disruptive to LMS and its development . |
| 27 | Such reactions have been at best unhelpful and at worst extremely damaging . |
| 28 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 29 | Thus thrice-happy Pamela is at last married and to whom ? |
| 30 | When the equation is worked through , we discover that there should be at most 50,000 and at least 40 such civilizations . |