Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you look back to 1974 you 'll discover that our vote lifted at precisely the moment the Tories tried the same game . |
| 2 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 3 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 4 | Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community . |
| 5 | One must , I think , start from the general premise that the protection of the child 's welfare implies at least the protection of the child 's life . |
| 6 | The lucky recipient of an Indian cadetship had at least the prospect of returning home as a wealthy senior officer , assuming of course that he survived the very real hazards of life in the East . |
| 7 | What the verdict of ‘ lack of care ’ presupposes is that some other persons had at least the opportunity of rendering care ( in the narrow sense of that word ) which would have prevented the death . |
| 8 | He could stand by the footplate of a steam locomotive knowing at once the names of driver and fireman who , for their part , knew that he had a very good idea of what each did and how he did it . |
| 9 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 10 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 11 | Her children knew at once the sort of things that these would be . |
| 12 | Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction . |
| 13 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 14 | Cold dark-matter particles move slowly — hot ones move at nearly the speed of light . |
| 15 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 16 | The set ends at just the point where she was becoming a fashionable figure and , eventually , a popular one on a wider scale ; by the end of the Forties , she must have been one of the most admired singers of her day . |
| 17 | The lens forms at precisely the spot where the outgrowth of the eye , in the form of an eyecup , approaches the surface . |
| 18 | They lack the remote aspirations of human beings for which , presumably , a linguistic grasp of categories involving at least the present and future would be necessary . |
| 19 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 20 | It was still hot outside , and his house had at once the smell of summer and the smell of death . |