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

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1 Were they Scottish at all most of them ?
2 Her temper made it inadvisable at other times .
3 The Praha Bridge , later called Charles Bridge , was begun in 1357 or , to be more exact , on 9 July 1357 at 05.31 a.m .
4 , Henry ( 1876–1947 ) , engineer , was born 3 June 1876 at 36 Pilgrim Street , Tranmere , Liverpool , being the first of three sons and two daughters of Edwin Greenly , railway guard , and his wife Sophia , daughter of John Howard , the owner of a wood-turning factory in Newington Butts , south London .
5 He had already put himself out by agreeing to see Dougal at such short notice .
6 From that distance it did not look ruined at all .
7 She died 31 May 1895 at 10 Plymouth Grove , Manchester .
8 No struggling at all .
9 Now I do n't think that 's primitive at all , I think it 's bloody mature .
10 Delegation achieves this at minimal cost .
11 While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them .
12 He continued to do this at frequent intervals , much to the detriment of his imposing and hitherto impeccable black Homburg hat .
13 Well , I can re-offer this at five hundred and sixty to the half thousand dollars , instead of , six hundred and eleven thousand , six hundred , that sounds like a ten percent reduction to me .
14 It is set to do this at 6.45 .
15 This at first sight may look difficult , but once mastered repays you with almost constant zero levels .
16 On the literal level , I learnt this at first hand with our notorious stoves .
17 He was a bit against this at first because there are n't as many ferries from Boulogne .
18 It might seem from this at first that Jude , like James , was Jesus 's brother .
19 I regarded this at first as meanness .
20 But I 'm sorry , David , I ought n't to be bothering you with all this at such a time .
21 I mean , we 've had them doing this at eight year old .
22 He had been too lordly to do this at one time , preferring to give them as Christmas presents .
23 It becomes I I do touch on this at one point in my submission , it becomes even better if it has links .
24 I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll ,
25 You should n't be doing this at all .
26 I 'm not trying to be a saint in any of this at all .
27 I still believed implicitly in Tony DeFries and I 'm not trying to put Tony down by this at all .
28 Even if ( and I do not accept this at all ) neutrality could only be justified as a means to a fair contest , it should not be identified with action securing a fair contest .
29 The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all .
30 Assad told them he would prevent this at all costs .
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