Example sentences of "at every " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 2 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 3 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 4 | The fixed menu idea came from Michael Vaughan , who finally convinced his reluctant wife to stop offering a choice of four dishes at every dinner two years ago . |
| 5 | This loyalty to the family ( or force ) is another lived quality which is imbued at every turn by practice and example . |
| 6 | For even the least reflexive or philosophical seem to be aware of the potential for reversal inherent in this system of power , where the sacred and the profane have the possibility of turning upon each other at every conjunction . |
| 7 | She followed , and Lucy waved at her in the mirror at every light . |
| 8 | At every competition you will see karateka working hard to sweat off the extra weight in time for a re-weigh . |
| 9 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 10 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
| 11 | No wonder they like a dram at every house . ’ |
| 12 | At every level — from the simple oligosynaptic circuits involved in the tropisms of primitive organisms to the complex neural activity implicit in human perception — computational models dominate scientific thought . |
| 13 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 14 | Balanchine employed every variety of pas marchés at every possible speed in Stars and Stripes . |
| 15 | Adverts extolling her virtues were placed at every suitable vantage point . |
| 16 | The poem does convey a message , though the message can not be at every point decoded . |
| 17 | This can be repeated at every new shelf . |
| 18 | The leadership proposals — for an ethnic minority-led socialist society open to white voting members , and a future national executive seat — crumbled under pressure from supporters and opponents of separate ‘ black sections ’ at every level . |
| 19 | Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) . |
| 20 | At every point where a road entered the ‘ restricted zone ’ , Singapore 's equivalent of Securicor officers stood , radios in hand . |
| 21 | Having arrived in New York via Cuba , the immigrant Fonstein seeks out Rose in order to express an entirely natural gratitude , but is shunned at every turn . |
| 22 | We stipulate temperature and handling at every stage . |
| 23 | At every turn he met bewilderment , cynicism or hostility he found difficult to understand . |
| 24 | Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , 17 , made a late charge into the hearts of the fans by putting the frighteners on Martina Navratilova , to race through the first set 6-0 , in just 25 minutes , cracking winners at every opportunity . |
| 25 | Next door , two elderly ladies from the Esperanto Society smiled more in hope than expectation at every preterpasanto — or passer-by , as you or I might say . |
| 26 | The prosecution could open a can of worms , since Mr Shalabai who has denied any wrongdoing had connections at every level . |
| 27 | All breeding and laying flocks have to be registered and are required to undertake extensive testing for salmonella at every stage of the hens ' lives . |
| 28 | Bureaucratic wrangles were conspicuous at every level . |
| 29 | Party committees at every level should supervise local editorial boards more closely . |
| 30 | Above : the craggy coastline offers new treasures at every turn . |