Example sentences of "[prep] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After at first showing little interest in the work , museum authorities informed the owners of ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ in May 1992 that it could no longer leave the country .
2 She was obviously not being looked after at all .
3 However , product quality may not be sought after at all .
4 This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment .
5 This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment .
6 It 's good to see their interests being looked after at long last .
7 ‘ The expectation we 're working towards at this point is 25,000 , ’ a spokesman told Reuter : ‘ We 've not revised that . ’
8 ‘ They 're doin' the type of violence we was n't even thinkin' of at that age , takin' guns to school and all that .
9 I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing
10 and that one and so erm what I do in the Summer as you said , when the sun 's sort of at two o'clock
11 On the day of the launch of At First Sight at London Colney , on September 20 , among many moving moments as crews meet up and shared their memories , there was a most poignant presentation .
12 More recently , we have learned how to use electromagnetic fields to give particles energies of at first millions and then thousands of millions of electron volts .
13 As for the financial crisis they had gone through , of which she suspected Greg was the root cause , that was never spoken of at all .
14 ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all
15 What , however , the revision shows no sign of at all is any advance from the Webbs ' dismissive view of Industrial Co-operation .
16 Social , class and family expectations may exert some influence but the limits of their choice , if these are taken account of at all , are broad .
17 With a look that she did n't know what to make of at all , he walked across to the revolving stand that held coats much like the one he was wearing , removed the sign that said ‘ Guaranteed Waterproof ’ , and tore it in half .
18 The secret news from Dunegal of Nithsdale , using a name that only Thorfinn would recognise , that Thorfinn did not talk of at all , at least before Groa .
19 Victorian market towns tend to be regarded — if they are thought of at all — as slumbering relics of the past , places of little account that had been relegated to minor status by the new industrial cities .
20 It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next .
21 Her job , her leisure , her religion were devoted to being a provider of at best health and knowledge , at the least of time or food .
22 These observations show that the first absorption band of at 37 900 cm -1 consists of two electronic transitions .
23 David Holford , the West Indies team manager , said : ‘ It seems that the strain of at last proving himself on English wickets last year has had an adverse effect on his form . ’
24 She began thinking about the possibility of at last talking to some other female about it all — not Alison , because she was the maternal type — but perhaps a professional .
25 Despite the dubious seaworthiness of our ship , for the first few days of the storm my sense of danger was eclipsed by the exhilaration of at last thundering in the right direction .
26 There you are , mother — there they go , properly disposed of at last .
27 And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment .
28 On returning to the trenches , Charlie was surprised to find that the thought of at last being involved in a real fight had put the men in better humour .
29 And indeed I would insist on this : the first requirement for a study of Pound is a set of maps ( preferably half an inch to the mile ) of at any rate certain regions of France , Italy and England ; the second requirement is a set of Michelin Green Guides for France and Italy , and ( if one is American ) similar guides to the South of England .
30 By this approach too we find the starting-point of at any rate one kind of valuation in choice of the spontaneous reaction in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ .
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