Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist .
2 This suggestion is , unfortunately , no more than speculation at this stage .
3 When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output .
4 They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft .
5 Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story ; Shirley MacLaine examined sex after 40 and death at any age in Terms of Endearment ; Bette Midler proved you could hate and loathe your best friend in Beaches ; and Juliet Stevenson screamed the fury of love lost — and the disappointment of love regained — in Truly , Madly , Deeply .
6 In fact , the land had become very open and flat at that point , enabling one to see a considerable distance in all directions , and the spire of Salisbury Cathedral had become visible on the skyline up ahead .
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