Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , there is no requirement that any evidence than that which grounded the original ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ should actually exist — and we have already seen that this formula is sometimes rather loosely interpreted at the arrest stage . |
| 2 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 3 | Such a condition leads to a degraded cliff , one that is principally the product of subaerial erosion and only locally sharpened at the base by marine erosion . |
| 4 | The committee of inquiry , composed of individuals with impressive antiracist credentials — Ian Macdonald , Gus John , Reena Bhavnani , Lily Khan — delivered a strong and , for some , an astonishing condemnation of the antiracist policies apparently vigorously pursued at the school , castigating them as doctrinaire , divisive , ineffectual and counterproductive . |
| 5 | He has enlisted Government help and interest in the RCA ; he has raised money for the renovations so badly needed at the college , and for building additional accommodation nearby for students . |
| 6 | The bass section is fully enclosed as expected , but the rest of the enclosure is open a the back , and only partly enclosed at the sides , making the system free to radiate backwards as well as forwards ( this property is known as ‘ dipole ’ , or figure of eight radiation ) . |
| 7 | It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah . |
| 8 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 9 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 10 | In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 11 | The cheque book , so conveniently left at the scene of the crime , could be interpreted as a genuine slip-up on his part . |
| 12 | At Ottawa , following a government report , the Gréber Commission , which concluded that stations and railway lines were unsightly in Canadian cities , the Beaux-Arts station , so superbly situated at the base of Parliament Hill , was abandoned and a new station like an airport was built on the edge of the city . |
| 13 | He worked at a pharmaceutical firm processing chlorthalidone and nifedipine , but 5 days ago had been moved to the micronisation of glibenclamide , only recently introduced at the firm . |
| 14 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 15 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 16 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 17 | ‘ For instance , as far as nature and wildlife is concerned , there are parks , nature reserves , wildlife centres , aquariums , beaches and waterfalls that are not only aimed at the tourist but at local people too , ’ he added . |
| 18 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 19 | He 's not exactly thrilled at the prospect himself . |
| 20 | My paper was rather mathematical , however , so its implications for the role of God in the creation of the universe were not generally recognized at the time ( just as well for me ) . |
| 21 | This was a condition not easily achieved at the Physic Garden because , Miller added , ‘ we have very little loam within a favourable distance ’ . |
| 22 | The best way to counter trespass is to put up waymarks , so rights of way should be properly signposted , not just marked at the edge of the road . |
| 23 | It was clear from this that people 's anger was not just directed at the dangers of the technology , but at the centralized military-industrial complex which had imposed it . |
| 24 | I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides . |
| 25 | Party leaders will be making efforts to ensure that Mr Lawson is not openly attacked at the conference . |
| 26 | These horns can be so long and incurved that there is a danger of damage to the animal 's cheeks if they are not carefully trimmed at the tips . |
| 27 | But the paying customers are just about outnumbered at the moment by a very big posse of travelling Italian journalists just to my left and all pretty excitable by our normal quiet English standards . |
| 28 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 29 | At the hearing there is a right of audience for counsel or for the agent — usually exercised only by counsel , and indeed sometimes the parliamentary agent is not even involved at the inquiry stage . |
| 30 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |