Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent air conditioning system , independently variable between the driver 's and passenger 's sides and fitted as standard , improves on an already good ventilation system , although its controls and high-tech graphic display are not easy to understand at a glance . |
| 2 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 3 | Unless you plan to tour other parts of Florida , it 's probably easiest to stay at a Disney World resort or at one of the seven affiliated hotels very close by . |
| 4 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 5 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 6 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 7 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 8 | A librarian whose shelves are full is therefore obliged to weed at a rate which is precisely equal to that of his new accessions . |
| 9 | He says : ‘ It would have been very bad to perform at a butcher 's wedding . ’ |