Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the company are to seek sponsorships and would welcome any enquiries now or perhaps at a later date when the industrial climate improves . |
| 2 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 3 | Thus a rabbit hole may suddenly go vertically upwards or downwards at a 90-degree angle . |
| 4 | In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town . |
| 5 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |
| 6 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 7 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 8 | ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’ |
| 9 | So you can look at er communication as relating to overall competence and perhaps at a stronger level than that , you could argue that erm communication determines not only the structure but also the strength and the scope of an organisation , okay ? |
| 10 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 11 | The general aim was to hand these problems over , if only at a conceptual level in the first instance , to the North and South Devon district management teams . |
| 12 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |
| 13 | The South Eastern Area supported the Appeal through public collections at events in the London area and also at a special street collection in Central London on 10 July . |
| 14 | Figure 4.1 shows two such bodies A and B , both having mass m and both at a radial distance r from the star of mass M , A and B are a tangential distance ζ apart . |
| 15 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 16 | And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else . |
| 17 | W And then at a later date she she would er reassess it and see what else you 'd done . |
| 18 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 19 | Travel writer Mark Wallington had stories to tell of his south London-born dog Boogie , ‘ a cross between a whippet and a Morris 1000 ’ , star of Five Hundred Mile Walkies , and how at a promising sounding signing session at Harrods , John Julius Norwich and Jilly Cooper were led into the Books Department while he and Boogie were ushered into the Pet Department . |
| 20 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 21 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( ‘ the person under investigation ’ ) or any other person whom he has reason to believe has relevant information to answer questions or otherwise furnish information with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation at a specified place and either at a specified time or forthwith . |
| 23 | So , too , was his teaching , an activity which he found invigorating , and which on both a public and a private place took up a great deal of his life , from 1905 until 1918 at the Westminster Art School , and subsequently at a wide range of other institutions . |
| 24 | The English Basketball Association officially encourages mixed recreational games , but not at a competitive level … |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Department of Energy said that the government was " determined to improve energy efficiency , but not at a disproportionate cost and effect to the consumer " . |
| 26 | In the Indian as in the Near Eastern traditions , the theistic structure is one which suggests the existence of a single supreme being , under whom many other divine forces may operate , but always at a lesser level to the one ‘ God ’ under whose control they ultimately stand . |
| 27 | By now arranging things so that the blades go down to -½° to -2° when the throttle is fully closed , a landing approach can be made with the blades at zero , or slightly negative pitch , but still at a moderate throttle setting to give full control . |
| 28 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 29 | And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ? |
| 30 | It is expected to lead to the creation of some 500 new jobs , mainly at Marconi 's Stanmore and Plessey Avionics ' West Leigh sites , but also at a large number of sub-contractors throughout the United Kingdom . |