Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no necessary logical inconsistency between generality and complexity , in the British case at least the results of macroeconomic policies have not been impressive . |
| 2 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 3 | On this occasion at least the KGB were more efficient than the CIA . |
| 4 | It is widely assumed that the Bundesbank council will effect a 50 basic points cut in official rates at either the meeting this Thursday or on 1 April . |
| 5 | In effect it was a simple slap at both the school system and the way in which the system actually provokes bullying from pupils or teachers . |
| 6 | It was n't all that much help , anyway , as far as tracing the kidnappers was concerned , but it did mean that on that point at least the Nilsen girl was telling the truth . |
| 7 | Easy to see what effect sudden nausea at even the thought of the big glass would have on a life lived in this way . |
| 8 | American and British firms built fat integrated bureaucracies at just the time when Japanese firms were arriving in international competition with their lean , mean communities of interest . |
| 9 | This gives rise to the conventional neoclassical objection to all models of this sort , namely , that the concept of a target real wage rate is ad hoc , arbitrary and not grounded in the rational calculus of profit and utility maximization which should be the starting-point of all economic enquiry at both the micro and the macro levels . |
| 10 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 11 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 12 | Nina had already commented favourably on it , throwing pointed looks at both the Health and Beauty desk and the disordered alcove from which Fashion operated . |
| 13 | In one case at least the costs have already been taxed . |
| 14 | As was so often the case with railway stations , these facilities were reaching their highest point at just the time when immigration — like the passenger statistics themselves — was about to take a steep downturn . |
| 15 | And on one occasion at least the deputies themselves had to pronounce on a crucial compromise resolution whose text had not even been distributed . |
| 16 | For one thing at least the Scots enjoyed a generally high reputation : they were hardy and courageous fighters . |
| 17 | ‘ I still think the great moments in acting are when a theatre audience lets out a big laugh at just the point when you want them to laugh — or when you can hear a pin drop because you 've got them totally captivated in the drama . ’ |
| 18 | The clear lesson of the history of modernism is that the academic left is quite capable of fashioning a central instrument for the reproduction of the interests of the dominant class at precisely the moment when it is making the most strident claims to the contrary . |
| 19 | In Rangoon contemporary and colonial Burma continue to co-exist decades after the British departure and it 's here that you will spend your first two nights at either the Inya Lake or Strand Hotel . |