Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the years of Stalin 's purges , and it was fortunate that he had spent so long away at a great distance . |
| 2 | He went all out at a new piece , rushing into it with lots of enthusiasm and wrong notes , trying to make it sound like the finished piece as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Speech thus requires very fine sequential organisation not only at a psychological level but at a physiological level also . |
| 4 | However , SAVE took the view that the hospital formed an important set piece of Regency townscape , being not only at a focal point in the middle of the royal parks , but also adjacent to both Decimus Burton 's Ionic arch at the entrance to Hyde Park and Apsley House . |
| 5 | She worked crouching down , and the infinitesimal pace of her labours made her feel like an ant , toiling away earnestly at a microscopic task . |
| 6 | ‘ No distraction ’ is always the priority , but more so at a large event . |
| 7 | It looked real enough at a quick glance , and the Crane Street area is not the most brilliantly lighted neighbourhood in town . |
| 8 | The rhythm of the cart , moving once more at a steady pace , rocked the kaleidoscope of memory . |
| 9 | The horse got the message.and set off once more at a lively gait . |
| 10 | Vite ! " he yelled , clapping his hands , and the coolie set off instantly at a frantic gallop along the boulevard . |
| 11 | The income is generally paid annually in arrears — this is the rate quoted in this article — although it can be paid more frequently at a lower rate . |
| 12 | The Jockey Club are to consider the the whip issue more fully at a Disciplinary Committee on September 8 . |
| 13 | This close association between war and revolution will need to be examined more fully at a later stage . |
| 14 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 15 | Now , once again at a safe height and with lots of forward speed , pull the stick back and , as the model passes through the vertical climb position , reduce the pitch to zero . |
| 16 | ‘ Coffee , ’ he replied , then , as she gave the order , leaned forward to look more closely at a framed photograph of a freckle-faced boy on her desk . |
| 17 | But the nuclear power-station operators in both Britain and abroad have also begun to look much more seriously at a clear alternative to reprocessing : the storage of the spent fuel until it can be directly disposed of in a special dump . |
| 18 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 19 | Prices will go up further at a 70-piece sale this June at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées . |
| 20 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 21 | When Laura came to stay , and swept into church in an Easter bonnet of her own devising which quivered with artificial lilac , and laughed out loud at a tiny joke in Peter 's sermon , to encourage him , one of the churchwardens wrote to the Bishop . |
| 22 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |
| 23 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 24 | This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine . |
| 25 | When one considers the proximity of Zurich ( so easy to go there for a show or a concert , have a meal , and arrive back home at a reasonable hour ) , the thriving variety of Winterthur 's night life is surprising . |
| 26 | The Government says that the work can be done just as efficiently at a bigger office in Wolverhampton , 50 miles away . |
| 27 | We must go into the reasons why we sometimes lose our lead [ in a technology ] and spend large sums of money on purchasing abroad equipment or technology which we are fully able to make for ourselves , often indeed at a higher quality level . |
| 28 | Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle . |
| 29 | The inflation of land prices encouraged farmers who wanted to remain in the east to sell to the Commission only to buy the same land back again at a reduced price and pocket the difference . |
| 30 | The only reason I can see that you need players in the first teams is to see if they are playing well enough at a high level . |