Example sentences of "[subord] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 2 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 3 | He then went to Jig Jigga , where at a mass meeting of Somalis he swore on the Koran that he was a Muslim . |
| 4 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 5 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 6 | This one proved a disaster doing nothing significant , and the huge spread prevented investors from selling out except at a substantial loss . |
| 7 | This was a difficulty which Mrs Thatcher , though far more able , intelligent and industrious than Kinnock , failed except at a few critical moments , to surmount . |
| 8 | The trees everywhere over-grow the road , so that it is totally impervious to the sun , except at a few places . |
| 9 | The key aspects of public goods are ( 1 ) that it is technically possible for one person to consume without reducing the amount available for someone else , and ( 2 ) the impossibility of excluding anyone from consumption except at a prohibitive cost . |
| 10 | This makes monitoring and evaluation more difficult except at the casual , ‘ How do you feel it went ? ’ level . |
| 11 | Except at the lowest level each module contains a single sub-program . |
| 12 | EXCEPT at the highest of America 's ski resorts , the lifts have stopped and the instructors have moved on to Argentina or New Zealand . |
| 13 | It is subdivided into three geographical and administrative regions which are independent except at the highest level . |
| 14 | Those that did turn up enjoyed the jovial atmosphere and frantic dancing ensued , except at the home-town concert in Middleton . |
| 15 | By the time I started to react there was no time to do anything except at the instinctive level . |
| 16 | No reference to Toinette , except at the very end , on the stairs , when he said , it 's all over now . |
| 17 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 18 | None the less , what the United States data imply is that the upward trend in recorded crime is in the same direction as actual victimization , although at a slower rate . |
| 19 | The same trend happens in the rural areas , although at a slower pace . |
| 20 | ( Some nuclei that are not aligned with the field also take part in fusion reactions , although at a slower rate . ) |
| 21 | Although at a regional level it is often possible to check secondary sources against the original data , this is impossible globally . |
| 22 | The company has dropped strong hints to union leaders that the current programme involving cuts of 24,000 over the next year will be followed by a further rundown , although at a lower rate . |
| 23 | The World Bank provides long-term loans although at a market-related interest rate . |
| 24 | Under the scrutiny of Hayward and Browne , he began to revise and concentrate his verse — after the problems with The Family Reunion , he wished to use only poetry which met the test of " strict dramatic utility " although at a later date he was to worry in case he had strayed too close to the drama of Frederick Lonsdale . |
| 25 | In the closed environment of the eye the oxygen concentration in the tears is maintained , although at a reduced level , form various peripheral blood vessels . |
| 26 | On Jan. 17 , the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister , Valery Nikolayenko , clarified this position , stating that Russia would maintain formal economic relations with Cuba , although at a reduced volume of trade . |
| 27 | One could speculate that behaviour would continue to improve , although at a decreasing rate , with it perhaps approaching a plateau somewhere below the optimum ; one might also want to speculate that there would be different plateaus for different people — reflecting the ‘ fact ’ that some individuals are better decision-makers than others . |
| 28 | Although at the political level it would seem that the Keynesian position has been relegated , at the theoretical ( and practical ) level it is maintained that fiscal policy can influence the achievement of the objectives of government policy . |
| 29 | However , although at the upper levels of society locative and other bynames became surnames and survived from this early period , this was not true at the lower levels and certainly there is no uniformity in the development of surnames . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |