Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise the earliest autumn record was 15 October , and arrival was most usual at the end of this month or in November . |
| 2 | After one visit to a juvenile court where some gang members had been committed to Approved School after ‘ carrying out depredations against shopkeepers over quite a wide area ’ , Dr Bryan ‘ could not help feeling a little depressed at the thought of so much high spirit , imagination , ingenuity and daring shut up behind high walls ’ . |
| 3 | Lewis was feeling puzzled now , and a little embarrassed at the course of the conversation : ‘ Probably a good thing now and then — clears the air , sort of . ’ |
| 4 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 5 | Carers and friends need to start where the person is at , and not wonder how it is that someone can seem so upset at the death of a pet and yet apparently unmoved by the untimely death of their spouse . |
| 6 | The gain in realistic security for groups , as for the person , in this replacement of the pleasure principle by the reality principle , is only possible at the expense of instinctual gratification . |
| 7 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 8 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 9 | The French made Line 7s are not as high cut as the other two models and are especially low at the back of the heel to avoid pressure on the Achilles tendon and the subsequent risk of tendonitis . |
| 10 | Polly swallowed , her mouth suddenly dry at the thought of those bronzed and powerful arms holding her close against his lean , hard-muscled body as , with a warning glare , he kept those who would come between them at bay . |
| 11 | The birdsong , so clear at the edge of the forest , was now quiet . |
| 12 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 13 | It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign . |
| 14 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 15 | The Socialist Party , which got its economics so disastrously wrong at the start of the 1980s , has now more or less caught the point . |
| 16 | Ronni took a mouthful of her drink , suddenly dry-mouthed at the thought of that . |
| 17 | Their devastated father Garry — a computer company executive who left England for a new life in Ireland 20 years ago -said : ‘ I am so numb at the loss of my two beautiful children . |
| 18 | They have meant that women are no longer quite so much at the mercy of their biology and may engage in sexual intercourse free from the worry of unwanted pregnancy . |
| 19 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 20 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 21 | Church planting is , I sense , so much at the heart of God for this country at this moment . |
| 22 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 23 | I 've certainly felt that again and again , not so much at the inadequacy of the politicians , as at my own inadequacy . |
| 24 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 25 | She 'd been so relieved at the news of Liz and Owen 's removal from Intensive Care that seeing the other girl 's still , slight figure lying motionless on the hospital bed had been a deep and severe shock . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if your lecturer is apparently unsuccessful at the job of transmitting his knowledge and enthusiasm to you , it may be you , the student , who is at fault . |
| 27 | Whereas the problem , as Hoyle saw it , was only amenable at the level of the social system ( the creative school ) , Stenhouse was here proposing systematic change based essentially on individual action . |
| 28 | Martin was so delighted at the idea of fatherhood that he became lovely and loving again , even drank less . |
| 29 | It was this conversation , most probably , which made Eisenhower so suspicious at the end of his presidency of the armaments lobby and its effect on policy . |
| 30 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |