Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull . |
| 2 | But soon the big stories were written in the knowledge that readers would know at least the bare bones from a news bulletin , and the 24-hour cycle of the daily paper lost much of its point as a news medium . |
| 3 | He added , however , that his firm would win at least the same revenues as 1992 — $40m . |
| 4 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 5 | is that tomorrow , when we start getting into planning , prioritizing , looking at where the new diaries and all that sort of stuff . |
| 6 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 7 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 8 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 9 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An adequate extrapolation theory must have at least the following features : |
| 12 | We have said clearly that we shall not accept changes in the rules on rabies unless we can have at least the same safeguards as we have today . |
| 13 | Reduction in police overtime the force is already running at below the minimum levels it considers necessary . |
| 14 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such heavy particles can not be created at even the highest energies particle accelerators can reach , but they could have been produced copiously in the aftermath of the big bang , with which , cosmologists generally believe , the Universe began . |
| 18 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 19 | Besides , the subsidies implicit in the incentives were insufficient to offset the anti-export bias created by the NEP ‘ padding ’ and protectionism and were aimed at only the largest enterprises . |