Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 2 | So our performance , in terms of F T Es per thousand pound , per thousand item , should be running more or less along at the November December level . |
| 3 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 4 | They caught up with him a mile or so away at the Plough Inn . |
| 5 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 6 | Example 4:6 Rent geared to subrents receivable YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on 1 January 1 April 1 July and 1 October in each year per cent of the net rents which the tenant is entitled to receive for the whole or any part of the demised property and calculated in accordance with the schedule hereto SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " full rack rental value " means the best rent at which the demised property ( or as the case may be the part of the demised property in question ) might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord to a willing tenant ( i ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 2 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it is actually occupied ( ii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 3 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) of this lease ( iii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 4 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it was last occupied and in any case disregarding the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) of section 34(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( as amended ) and on the assumption that the rent so determined will be revised every five years ( b ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales or the Association of Certified Accountants ( 2 ) If the tenant lets or permits to be occupied the whole or any part of the demised property in return for any pecuniary consideration other than the full rack rental value thereof as at the date of such letting or permission or in return for no pecuniary consideration then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date of such letting or permission and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 3 ) If the tenant himself occupies the whole or any part of the demised property then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date on which he went into occupation and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 4 ) If the whole or any part of the demised property remains vacant for three months or more then at the expiry of such period of three months the tenant shall until the same is next occupied be deemed to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date upon which the said period expired and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 5 ) The tenant shall one month before the beginning of each quarter ( time being of the essence ) deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant showing a true summary of : ( a ) the gross amount of all rents and licence fees which the tenant is entitled ( or deemed to be entitled ) to receive in respect of the demised property and each part thereof for that quarter and ( b ) the amount of any sum included in ( a ) above which the tenant is entitled to recover from any subtenant or occupier of the whole or any part of the demised property either by way of VAT or by way of service charge in respect of services or works performed or to be performed ( 6 ) Subject to paragraph ( 7 ) below the net rents shall be the difference between the two amounts shown in the said certificate ( 7 ) The net rents shall be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors if : ( a ) the tenant fails to deliver a certificate in accordance with paragraph ( 5 ) above ( in which case the tenant shall pay interest on the net rents at the rate of … per cent from the quarter day in question until payment ) or ( b ) any dispute or difference arises between the parties in connection with the calculation of the net rents ( in which case the arbitrator shall determine the amount of interest if any to be paid by the tenant ) ( 8 ) The tenant shall permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books or account or any other document or record ( and if necessary the tenant shall procure any computer print-out ) which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the calculation of the net rents and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the certificate delivered by the tenant under paragraph 5 above and the results of such inspection . |
| 7 | Or even just at the end . |
| 8 | Right , so it 's one I want to , I did n't get time to do last week was to tell you where you specify that you want to perform a Chow test , right , and the computer will generate both of both of Chow 's tests with one , the first one is where we 've got enough observations in each sub sample , right , to estimate the regression , right , however , you may , you may detect and figure there is some structural change right at the end of your er sample of observations or alternatively right at the beginning . |
| 9 | One looked from side to side , at the two speakers , or else down at the table or , fleetingly , at one 's own side . |
| 10 | There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies . |
| 11 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 12 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 13 | Besides the spireless tower , Wynford pioneered the co-ordinated plan of lodgings , in the upper ward of Windsor Castle , at New College , and at Winchester , and perhaps also at the Vicars ' Close in Wells . |
| 14 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 15 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 16 | Wait patiently and long enough at the start and the end of the day at different villus and you will see or hear most of Sri Lanka 's wildlife . |
| 17 | Before long West Germany 's Bundestag may confront the same problem : the federal elections late next year could give the Republicans enough votes to achieve representation — and not necessarily at the expense of Hans-Dietrich Genscher 's Free Democrats . |
| 18 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
| 19 | You have the , a little passage that goes through what is called mini cafe , and just there at the corner is a very big . |
| 20 | attendance allowances for members , I would move that er , a scheme be commenced from the first of April ninety-four , and that the wording attached to the paper , be altered in two respects , in place of the phrase is a person over sixty-nine years of age , the words is an elderly person , and more significantly at the end of paragraph four , and normally lives with a member as part of the member 's family and be able to be left at th , be unable to be left unsupervised , be added , And that er , power to delegate a director of financial to amend the rates of allowances from time to time rates of attendance allowance for members , and that the scheme be met from the overall member 's allowance to which we recently referring . |
| 21 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 22 | We need now to look more closely and more precisely at the role of knowledge , and how it interacts with language to create discourse . |
| 23 | At the NATO meeting in Athens in the spring of 1962 , and more publicly at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in June , McNamara spoke of the nuclear forces of powers possessing limited nuclear capability and acting independently as : |
| 24 | I 'm pretty sure Firbank must have stayed there , and also probably at the Hotel Manila , so convenient for the sumptuous Opera , now restored to its full glory . |
| 25 | They are fine-boned , short-legged , deep in the body and with fine , short horns curving inwards and slightly upwards at the tips in most cases , though direction of growth is variable . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 27 | What booksellers can hope adequately to display more than a mere handful of these — and often then at the expense of much more saleable backlist titles with greater literary and commercial credentials ? |
| 28 | What bookseller can hope adequately to display more than a mere handful of these — and often then at the expense of much saleable backlist titles ? ’ |
| 29 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 30 | The shape of the foam is designed to allow maximum arm and shoulder movement and so is cut narrow at the top and well down at the sides . |