Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pragmatism claims to risk error at least about the right issue . |
| 2 | This brings the UK into line with the Danish , Dutch and Swedish authorities , who have already committed themselves to preserving Decca at least until the end of this century , while the positions of Ireland and Norway have not yet been declared . |
| 3 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 4 | To her , it was nothing dreadful after all , but she was compelled to keep silent and pay lip-service at least to the general despair , for fear she would be outlawed otherwise . |
| 5 | It seems certain that this took place at least before the divergence with chimpanzee , and since multiple KOX2-hybridising bands are also present in other apes and monkeys , the duplication event may have been prior to the branch points of most simian primates . |
| 6 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 7 | Land zoned for development in a local plan , although without planning approval , may well change hands at substantially above the market price in its current use , in anticipation of development taking place . |
| 8 | Our society pays lip-service at least to the idea of imagination in that the word " imaginative " is normally regarded as a compliment — the opposite of " dull " . |
| 9 | We want the E E C to enforce laws at least along the lines imposed by the U S A after the Exxon Valdez disaster . |
| 10 | She made none for herself , but left Rachaela at once with the mug in her hand . |
| 11 | It 's to take place at 7pm in the Everyman Theatre foyer . |
| 12 | The state Supreme Court recently rejected his latest habeas corpus petition ; his execution is scheduled to take place at 3am in the gas chamber at San Quentin prison on April 3rd . |
| 13 | There were also fears that the Russian Federation would stop the Soviet practice of supplying oil at well below the world market price while buying Cuban sugar at well above international prices . |
| 14 | Crucial to these observations are satellites , satellites have the ability to make measurements at least of the surface layer of the ocean on a nearly daily basis . |