Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |
| 2 | The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency . |
| 3 | It has remained at approximately the same latitude since its discovery but it has changed in size , reaching its maximum size of 40 000 × 13 000 km about 100 years ago . |
| 4 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work . |
| 5 | The income trust will invest in between 60 and 70 UK stocks — mainly blue chip companies like ICI — and will seek to maintain at least the current dividends levels in all but ‘ the worst possible economic circumstances . ’ |
| 6 | Fenella began to speak at exactly the same moment that Pumlumon began to intone the Draoicht Suan . |
| 7 | It aims to look at how the private sector has and can increase its involvement in local and urban regeneration . |
| 8 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 9 | Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’ |
| 10 | Ski with a friend and make some fairly short-radius turns which the second skier will try to emulate at exactly the same moment ( ie turn at the same time rather than follow the same track ) . |
| 11 | Each day try to include at least the following : |
| 12 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 13 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 14 | Frame claims 38% of the world market for desktop publishing under Unix ; nearest rival is Interleaf Inc , and in Japan expects to win at least the same market share , according to senior vice-president Pat House . |
| 15 | Some outlandish schemes did reach at least the experimental stage , such as catching a landing aircraft in a glorified tennis net , strung between two posts . |
| 16 | The fact that the tropics appear to have remained at approximately the present temperature despite major changed in the Equator-to-pole temperature difference ( and the associated heat flux out of the tropics ) strongly suggests the presence of some stabilizing mechanism for the tropics . |
| 17 | He expects to pay at least the same dividend again in 1993 . |
| 18 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
| 19 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 20 | As I speak , a chance now for Martin Foyle ; Foyle has scored for Oxford , he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle , he cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one and the goal coming from Martin Foyle . |
| 21 | He cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot , so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one . |
| 22 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 23 | In 2 we have looked at how the formal system operates between as well as within sentences ; in 3 we have seen how knowledge of the world ( about cats and gates , for example ) or of the culture ( about social roles and relationships ) enables people to make their language function as they intend and to understand how others do the same to them . |