Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 3 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 4 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 5 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 6 | Other people , who are perhaps close to , or even at the right weight , are still not necessarily eating well . |
| 7 | I refer , for example , to the Welsh health common services authority which , under the leadership of Brigadier Peter Crawley , decided that it would locate in the bay rather than at Merthyr Tydfil or some other place along the A470 — or even at the refurbished BBC studios building at Gabalfa , which is where we all thought that authority would go . |
| 8 | You can contact me at St. Luke 's at Ely or here at the Old Rectory . |
| 9 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 10 | Sometimes , in the middle of a flow , or else at the small mouths or boccas from which the flows emerge , gas venting from the lava flings small glowing gobbets of it short distances up into the air . |
| 11 | Exhaustive computer simulations done in the US show that even at the present prices for fuel , conventional sailing ships are only marginally competitive when all is counted . |
| 12 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 13 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 14 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
| 15 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 16 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 17 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 18 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 19 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 20 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |
| 21 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 22 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 23 | It is in the locality ( defined in physical terms ) and not at the national or regional level that practical working-class politics are developed ( p 40 ) . |
| 24 | His men followed , shooting up at the ship 's railings , and elsewhere at the other Germans in scattered positions . |
| 25 | The class gets used to performing at a particular speed and also the movement becomes greatly disturbed if not at the right tempo . |
| 26 | A spokesman said the effect on borrowers will be marginal and amount to an extra £10 a month on mortgages of £30,000 and above at the typical interest rate of 8 per cent . |
| 27 | There was , for example , a downturn of 20 per cent in total enrolment of teacher trainees for secondary school and above at the National University 's Faculty of Education between 1982 and 1987 . |
| 28 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 29 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 30 | The lawyer looked at the will , then at Poole , and finally at the dead man on the floor . |