Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 11-year-old hound was spotted at last , less than four miles from home , and although frightened and hungry , was picked up safe and well . |
| 2 | But for Pisa , which has lost much of its income from tourism since the tower was closed more than two years ago for safety reasons , the real miracle is that work is to start at last . |
| 3 | And his gallant countrymen were beaten at last . |
| 4 | Swindon must have thought their lucky break was coming at last when they won a penalty against Aston Villa at the County Ground … and took the lead thanks to Paul Bodin … |
| 5 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 6 | The need for hard copy was met at first by initiating , via the VDU keyboard , an instruction to print remotely in the Data Processing Centre . |
| 7 | The step which for decades successive tsars had contemplated but abandoned in the face of noble opposition was taken at last . |
| 8 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 9 | When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last . |
| 10 | Was a new movement being formed at last ? |
| 11 | At each stage the vested interests — of protected tenants , of council tenants , and of local and national politicians — in the system , grew stronger and more complex , so that the wonder is not that it lived so long but that two men were found at last , in Duncan Sandys and Henry Brooke , of sufficient courage and determination to lay the axe to the roots and start hewing a way back to sanity . |
| 12 | Similarly , the availability of new technology is limited at first to narrow distribution channels such as direct sales nd systems integrators , typically proportional to the complexity of the stuff . |
| 13 | A tiny circle of bright brass was found at last in the fishing tackle cupboard , slipped over Victoria 's finger and proudly displayed to the rest of the party . |
| 14 | If they are in different departments they must be brought together physically , whatever departmental objections are raised at first . |
| 15 | If they are in different departments they must be brought together physically , whatever departmental objections are raised at first . |