Example sentences of "[adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni took a mouthful of her drink , suddenly dry-mouthed at the thought of that . |
| 2 | Curly at the edges and mottled with age . |
| 3 | and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom . |
| 4 | and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom . |
| 5 | What are you curly at the back ? |
| 6 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 7 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 8 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
| 9 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 10 | If you both want the father to be present at the birth , ask about arrangements for this at the hospital as early as you can . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure that a radial-arm saw is accurate enough for this at the best of times , but , at the moment , mine rattles up and down its rails like a train in the sidings , and is definitely not fit for the job . |
| 12 | In urban areas especially , major developments place sudden and immense extra demands on the transport infrastructure — but no one considers this at the planning stages . |
| 13 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 14 | ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ? |
| 15 | But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling . |
| 16 | If you know your height and weight , write this at the top . |
| 17 | I 'm writing this at the start of the war in the Gulf . |
| 18 | Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service . |
| 19 | If you require delivery of your car to the airport into which you are flying , please state this at the time of booking . |
| 20 | Nations have to do this at the same time as they keep up economic growth , or accept a drop in standards of living . |
| 21 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 22 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 23 | I think Alec realised this at the beginning . |
| 24 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 25 | Traditional library instruction has made considerable use of the lecture method for large groups , the guided tour for smaller groups , and individual help to the student who asks for this at the information desk . |
| 26 | Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born . |
| 27 | At the same time she has two babies ( one in each arm , asleep ) ; all this at the same time . |
| 28 | I did not know this at the time . |
| 29 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 30 | It should be sent ( or preferably taken ) as soon as possible , together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) which you will have been given by the Registrar of Births and Deaths , to the local Social Security Office , and as in most cases there is an entitlement to a National Insurance death grant , application can be made for this at the same time . |