Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll change all that when we 're married , ’ Naylor assured her , and her heartbeats raced an erratic rhythm at just the very thought of being married to him . |
| 2 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 3 | We would of course fully report all of our reasoning at both the yes and no stages of this decision tree . |
| 4 | However , recent CBI figures show UK investment at below the German level ; I suspect high interest rates are a major deterrent . |
| 5 | I have been able to boost the Scottish roads programme at both the national and local level . |
| 6 | The programme involves research at both the national and local levels of economies in developing countries . |
| 7 | are greatest and where the greatest problem there are or , or , er exist under normal circumstances to which the trunk roads , the A roads , the primary roads , the principle roads , these roads are where the traffic is greatest and this therefore constitutes in my mind at least the most important roads , I think your correct term , we will er consider the phraseology used in perhaps more accurately to described the , the , the title road which we are talking about here , but I certainly take the point you make . |
| 8 | The Council is hoping it 's code of conduct will lead to a more harmonious relationship with buskers , but with one street musician at least the code is definitely way out of tune . |
| 9 | He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained . |
| 10 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 11 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 12 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 13 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 14 | The 1987–9 , FoE- Observer tapwater survey found 154 water supply areas with aluminium at above the EC level of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 15 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 16 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 17 | It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope ! |
| 18 | Thus with good records management at both the creation and archive ends the scientific population , the legal department , the regulatory authorities AND the historian should have an improved information source . |
| 19 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 20 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 21 | ‘ I still think the great moments in acting are when a theatre audience lets out a big laugh at just the point when you want them to laugh — or when you can hear a pin drop because you 've got them totally captivated in the drama . ’ |
| 22 | On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed . |
| 23 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 24 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 25 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 26 | Débourbage , or cleansing , of the must can take place at either the presshouse or the winery and is , in its simplest form , merely a resting of the must to enable the particles of skin and other impurities to settle on the bottom of the vat . |
| 27 | If a Champagne house buys its requirements in the form of must ( as opposed to grapes ) , débourbage might well take place at both the presshouse and the winery . |
| 28 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 29 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 30 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |