Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adv] the [adj] " 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 | However , recent CBI figures show UK investment at below the German level ; I suspect high interest rates are a major deterrent . |
| 4 | I have been able to boost the Scottish roads programme at both the national and local level . |
| 5 | The programme involves research at both the national and local levels of economies in developing countries . |
| 6 | He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained . |
| 7 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 11 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 19 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 20 | He puts forward three key areas of non-local policy determination : policy formulation within the welfare state as a whole ; the involvement of large private firms in urban development and service provision ; and professionalism at both the local and the national level . |
| 21 | He also warned that a slowdown in money supply growth this summer could threaten the recovery at just the wrong moment . |
| 22 | If you pay tax at above the basic rate , there will be some additional tax to be paid . |
| 23 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 24 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 25 | This social dislocation at both the depressed and the growth area is costly in economic terms too : schools are abandoned in the depressed areas and new schools are needed in the growth areas ; housing suffers in similar ways ; and so on . |
| 26 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 27 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 28 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 29 | Together , Perry and Crilly committed endearing and devilish acts ; climbing to the ceiling of the asylum chapel to ring the chapel bell at precisely the wrong time , loitering upon the roof of the geriatric ward in pursuit of fat blue-winged pigeons , throwing craps in front of the Sinn Fein bookshop . |
| 30 | This surplus revenue financed agricultural improvement and extensive rebuilding at both the local and central level . |