Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] at [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 2 | The recommendations are contained in section five and five one C effectively impress the assistance of Policy Committee in addressing the need to sustain at least the current level of spending of three point nine million on these small but vital schemes throughout the period of the medium term plan . |
| 3 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 4 | Thus if you want the news to break at roughly the same time the material will have to be sent out at intervals appropriate to the lead times of the publications concerned , and there is always the risk that the nationals will hear of the item and decide to publish it . |
| 5 | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall . |
| 6 | Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law . |