Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the end of a special evening , or rather at its high point , you would hear Gary playing a certain intro , and you 'd hear the whole bar going quiet as people recognised it . |
| 4 | So Maria remained at home , or rather at whatever lodgings Noreen found in the town they were playing . |
| 5 | Or rather at two from the house that stood to gain ? |
| 6 | Lucker stares at me or rather at a spot on the wall to the left of my head . |
| 7 | Roger is now settled at Birmingham University , or rather at the ‘ University of Central England ’ and seems rather overcome by the amount of work expected of him , but has otherwise fallen on his feet . |
| 8 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think they will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season . |
| 10 | I am pleased we are to meet at 5p.m. or thereabouts at Waterloo on Wednesday , 8th February when I 'm down for the Co-ordinators , to take a close look at the programme for our Scottish National Conference on 10–12 March at the Scottish Churches House , Dunblane , in which you , Ingrid Keith and Mauricio Laborde , Chile , are to share . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Therefore , the company are to seek sponsorships and would welcome any enquiries now or perhaps at a later date when the industrial climate improves . |
| 13 | On some occasions it may not be of great importance to the patient 's health whether he is treated at that time or perhaps at all . |
| 14 | Alternatively , this student , too , could go straight on to take an occupational SVQ , at level I , or perhaps at level II . |
| 15 | What makes young people more or less at risk ? |
| 16 | If all goes well , Beech Road will start at 2-1 or less at Cheltenham as there is no mistaking his superiority . |
| 17 | In the last days , with the Red Army approaching , groups of Budapest Jews had been rounded up , more or less at random , and taken to the embankment of the Danube where they were shot . |
| 18 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 19 | From the optical properties of this mineral we know that the lens was able to interpret light coming from a direction more or less at right-angles to the lens surface . |
| 20 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 21 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 22 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 23 | Any frost of -4°C or less at 0.3 metres above the ground will affect the vine . |
| 24 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 25 | Out of the many examples available , here is one chosen more or less at random . |
| 26 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 27 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 28 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 29 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 30 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |