Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 2 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
| 3 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 4 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 5 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
| 6 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 7 | Although the party had at first favoured the maintenance of two German states the Jan. 12-14 conference affirmed its policy goal to be " a united Germany … with the consent of our neighbours " . |
| 8 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 9 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 10 | Blanche and Dexter knew Mills had recovered from his deep financial difficulties the year before and the accountant had at last discovered how : substantial payments had been paid into Mills ' Swiss bank account in the months leading up to his death . |
| 11 | Some animals feed on living plants ; even if no animals come at first they may come later if plants begin to grow in the microhabitat . |
| 12 | Both have black , hairy spikes sticking up from their bodies , but the small tortoiseshell caterpillars are black and yellow , while the peacocks appear at first to be completely black all over . |
| 13 | When the light came they mustered what was left to them , and knew without many words spoken , even when the storm subsided at last into mere mist and drizzle , that they could not advance further . |
| 14 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible , they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter , ’ declared Mr Howard . |
| 16 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 17 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |