Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 2 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 3 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 4 | It does not put upon the mat ( not at least in the same direct way ) the state of affairs of anyone believing that it was the knave who stole them . |
| 5 | Twelve of the big entry of 40 cue off at 11am in the preliminary round as follows : Steve Blundell ( Hindley ) v David Pye ( Prescot ) ; John Hughes ( Widnes ) v Peter Sheehan ( Widnes ) ; Paul Mather ( Wigan ) v 15 year old Phil Johnson ( Widnes ) , Arthur Johnson ( Widnes ) v Will Jerram ( Southport ) ; Nigel Warren ( Liverpool ) v Denis Marr ( Liverpool ) and Brendan Carroll Birkenhead ) v Trevor Gent ( Widnes ) . |
| 6 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 7 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 8 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 9 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 10 | Soviet initiatives for the Mediterranean in the guise of denuclearisation or the creation of zones of peace date back at least to the Soviet ‘ Draft Declaration on Non-Intervention in the Middle East ’ presented in February 1957 . |
| 11 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 12 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 13 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 15 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 16 | It is hoped that Customs will keep to their original pledge of applying the rules sympathetically at least within the first year , and waive any penalties where it is clear that the taxpayer has done his best to comply . |
| 17 | Stuck here at least until the 4th . |
| 18 | On 1 November 1950 he declared that Mary had been assumed bodily into heaven — the doctrine of the Assumption , which had no scriptural , or other early Church , warrant , but which had been celebrated liturgically at least from the fourth century and certainly from the fifth . |
| 19 | Tulagai slid almost at once into the vacant place . |
| 20 | Clause 17 should be dealt with separately , if not by a Bill in its own right then at least by the Scottish Grand Committee , which should sit separately to consider clause 17 , as it applies only to our country . |
| 21 | There is some doubt about the circumstances of Molla Yegan 's death , to which reference will be made in due course , but it may be remarked here that while el-Kefevi is possibly right at least about the rough date of Molla Yegan 's death , the slightest suspicion attaches to the basis for his statement by reason of the fact that his words ( if not their order ) are practically identical with Taskopruzade 's statement about the death of Molla Taj al Din Ibrahim , known as Khatib-zade ( Hatibzade ) : Hatibzade and Molla Yegan are associated in an anecdote related by Taskopruzade in the biography of the former but included by el-Kefevi in the biography of Molla Yegan . |
| 22 | Yet at least in the first two decades of this major shift in political life , faction was based on commitments other than the purely personal . |
| 23 | The requirement for shareholder consent , either by resolution or , formally , by their consent to the delegation of final decision-making power to the board , maintains the surface integrity of the ownership model , though certainly at least in the latter case shareholder consent is more hypothetical than real . |