Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 2 | He had ‘ no tie — so rude at a formal party like this , heavy dun trousers of a fashion the French might call ‘ eclat merdeaux ’ , smeared with darkening souvenirs of food and drink bound by a belt from the corpse of a dead guardsman . |
| 3 | Watson , of Walworth , was convicted of robbing the Connollys and Mrs McDevitt after pleading not guilty at a previous hearing . |
| 4 | ‘ The duties imposed … shall not require a local authority to do anything which is not practicable at a reasonable cost ’ . |
| 5 | The processing power needed to solve this problem is simply not available at a reasonable price , or in a compact enough form . |
| 6 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 7 | In Britain , in particular , there can be few areas where water is not available at a shallow depth . |
| 8 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 9 | I therefore summarise the proposals for our discussion next week and apologise for its lateness chiefly due to my being off sick at a crucial point . |
| 10 | Species shoals ensure males and females develop together making spawning more feasible at a future date . |
| 11 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 12 | Training will have made dancers more adept at a certain style of dance and they usually show preference fur a certain type of step : elevation , pointe work , pirouettes or whatever . |
| 13 | Some are usually more common at a particular age . |
| 14 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 15 | He is also able at a later stage to add bits of language that move his notes towards sentence form — " There is a " , for instance , in point 1 . |
| 16 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 17 | He was also surprised at a later date to find on one occasion an abstract in Minton 's studio . |
| 18 | All of the beliefs and thoughts which create our reality are now accessible at a conscious level . |
| 19 | Getting the odd one or two which match is often impossible at a later date . |
| 20 | Particularly divisive at a parochial level was the stress placed by the bishops on the need for a greater reverence in the communion rite , and their determination that the portable communion tables , which had been used since Elizabethan times , should be replaced by altars permanently positioned at the east end of the chancel and separated from the body of the church by altar rails . |
| 21 | EGF itself is used , by others as well as ourselves , at doses 100 to 1000 times that used for inducing DNA synthesis in cell cultures , because the phosphorylation is not readily detectable at a lower dose . |
| 22 | A work in which the meaning is fully apparent at a literal level is normally easier than one which depends on the interpretation of extended metaphor , analogy , symbolism , and so on . |
| 23 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 24 | Except for the purposes of Rule 11 , the Code defines voting rights as all the voting rights attributable to the share capital of a company which are currently exercisable at a general meeting . |
| 25 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 26 | Graham 's results are not very surprising at a conceptual level . |