Example sentences of "only at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 2 | And Charlotte was suddenly aware of him as a person , and by no means an unintelligent person , either ; but above all a vital presence , to be ignored only at the general peril . |
| 3 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 4 | The horrific murders and woundings of the past week are an example of sheer terror — aimed not only at the Catholic community but at the prison authorities . |
| 5 | I do n't look at the face , only at the scabby hand . |
| 6 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 7 | Nature was given its due , but only at the southern tip of the marsh . |
| 8 | Only at the far end was there a light . |
| 9 | In addition there is an aim to enhance public accountability of schools and teachers by making the results of regular assessments available to parents and public , not only at the individual level for the parent , but more widely in terms of the achievement of schools and local education authorities . |
| 10 | This is still clearer with the development agencies , not only at the regional ( or ‘ national , ) level where Cawson would find the corporatist label acceptable , but also at local level , particularly through agencies such as GEAR . |
| 11 | Wage regulation applied only at the upper limit . |
| 12 | Only at the upper end of the market could such beautiful coloured works as Plants of the Coast of Coromandel ( 1795–1820 ) , published under the auspices of the East India Company , or Audubon 's Birds of America ( 1827–38 ) , find a sale . |
| 13 | Under Theory X motivation occurs only at the physiological and security levels of Maslow 's hierarchy . |
| 14 | In principle , this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate . |
| 15 | Only at the right time with the right leader and the right audience can strategy become vision and leadership become visionary . |
| 16 | But Sir David English says , they 'd want control and then , only at the right price . |
| 17 | These series carry pages which are common to all editions and other pages which are aimed only at the small circulation areas . |
| 18 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 19 | The final stage of the claim , that BSL consists purely of visual images in the story-teller and that BSL functions only at the visual concrete level , however , goes beyond the information given . |
| 20 | Notice now that the range is compatible only at the virtual computer level and not at the hardware level . |
| 21 | But Smith said bluntly : ‘ The League race is only at the half-way stage and there is still a long way to go . ’ |
| 22 | Experiments with the insert A 9 GCT 9 ( not shown ) reveal cleavage only at the central GC step . |
| 23 | Attitudes to language learning in a society are crucial to success ( Strevens , 1978 ) , not only at the societal level of numbers of proficient learners but also in their effect on the individual learner 's perceptions of language learning . |
| 24 | It was a representation , in effect , as to the future , namely , that payment of the rent would not be enforced at the full rate but only at the reduced rate . |
| 25 | Hostile bids would be possible only at the five-yearly meetings . |
| 26 | It is expected that any such changes to be manifested not only at the attitudinal and cognitive levels , but also in behavioural indices such as higher rates of criminal activity , marital problems and disputes at work . |
| 27 | This significance is visible not only at the ideological and cultural level , but also at the economic and political level . |
| 28 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 29 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 30 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |