Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the most distinguished scientists at the Metropolitan Laboratory were women and Dalgliesh , recognizing in himself an old-fashioned sensitivity which he certainly would n't have confessed to them , was always glad when it was possible to remove the more horrific bodies before they arrived to track and photograph the bloodstains and supervise the collection of samples . |
| 2 | Hitherto musico-dramatic entertainments at the French Court had been similar to the Italian intermedii , though with an ever increasing proportion of dancing , as in the famous Balet comique de la Royne ( 1581 ) devised , but not written or composed , by an Italian known in France as Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx , and the more dramatic ballets de cour composed by Guedron . |
| 3 | But much more important is to think of other trade magazines which might use your information and bring in some customers at the same time . |
| 4 | Despite Fascist claims that the working class of the East End was with them , Lewis could muster only 154 votes at the general election . |
| 5 | After only three months at the Foreign Office , John Major , previously Chief Secretary , was brought back to the Treasury as Chancellor , leaving the Foreign Secretaryship unexpectedly vacant . |
| 6 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 7 | ‘ There should be some form of grading , like a golfing handicap , allowing you to drive only smaller cars at the lowest level . |
| 8 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 9 | Seeing there were only two seats at the small table , she plumped down on my lap . |
| 10 | The final twist was that Mr Kinnock was committed to negotiating away nuclear weapons at the earliest opportunity , Mr King added . |
| 11 | However , as long as we are aware of these provisos , and are able to correct the most crass biases at the empirical and conceptual levels , there is clearly a use to which such classifications can be put . |
| 12 | More historic recreations at the refurbished Walker Art Gallery |
| 13 | This superbly efficient oven is also highly economical to use as you can cook three or more different dishes at the same time . |
| 14 | The Central Council of Physical Recreation helped to establish our first course in 1955 with an external examiner from the physical education profession joining internal adjudicators to ensure compatibility with nationally accepted standards at the qualifying examination . |
| 15 | More sceptical types at the European Commission shake their heads . |
| 16 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 17 | He stared with his stupendously stoned eyes at the assembled and stricken family . |
| 18 | Growth factors generate a number of putative mitogenic messengers which then feed into various pathways to control both early events at the G0/G1 boundary ( for example , fos and myc transcription ) and later events which culminate in the onset of DNA synthesis . |
| 19 | ‘ My mother had earned money all her life and brought up three children at the same time seen their noses were wiped and their morals sound . |
| 20 | There is however a problem , if one is trying to do both these things at the same time . |
| 21 | For downward transitions you tighten your buttocks and straighten your upper body also closing knees at the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ We suspect they do n't want fans to become shareholders and bring up awkward matters at the annual meeting , ’ says TaW 's other co-editor , Steve Beauchamp . |
| 23 | A woman in her forties was busily scrubbing tables at the far end . |
| 24 | The political-economic structures behind the range of choices is the next necessary analytical step and opens up wider concerns at the local , national and international level . |
| 25 | A typical agreement of this kind concerned Mercedes trucks which were expensive ( about 70,000 dinars at the official rate of exchange in 1979 ) and extremely profitable . |
| 26 | Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’ |
| 27 | A warning from Iceland Group that the UK food market was becoming increasingly competitive despite substantially higher profits at the half-way stage left the company 4p down at 226p . |
| 28 | Last night , UPS European Communications manager Annie Garthwaite said the move would affect about 150 jobs at the two Essex airports . |
| 29 | She took only 16 , about two pounds at the black market rate . |
| 30 | ‘ The Curry Club is really a front for the Anglo-Indian parliamentary group , and we frequently get the most wonderful lunches at the Indian High Commission as well , ’ says Mrs Nicholson . |