Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 2 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 3 | During the nineteenth century the absolute number of indigenous Siberians remained approximately the same as at the end of the eighteenth century , but their proportion in the total population of some five million fell to about 14 per cent . |
| 4 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 5 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 6 | The net tangible assets of the Business are at the date of this Agreement and will pending Completion be no less than at the Balance Sheet Date and the profits of the Business from the Balance Sheet Date to the date of this Agreement and pending Completion are and will be proportionately no less than the profits for the previous financial year . |
| 7 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |