Example sentences of "[conj] at [noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been angry with Hepzibah , though , and thinking about it , lying awake in bed that night , and at school the next day , Carrie knew she must warn her . |
| 2 | The beach here is especially quiet even by Formentera standards and at night a strolling guitarist often serenades diners as they watch some of the most gloriously pink sunsets it is ever possible to imagine . |
| 3 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 4 | It argues that the stricter probation conditions proposed will lead to more breaches of the orders , and at present a large proportion of those who breach go straight to prison . |
| 5 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 6 | In the evening and at dawn the whole bird 's eye view was bathed in a mysterious light , ‘ like a Ruysdael or Van der Meer . ’ |
| 7 | Howard himself told an interviewer in 1789 that his daily diet consisted of ‘ two penny rolls with butter or sweetmeats , one pint of milk , five or six cups of green tea and at bedtime a roasted apple ’ . |
| 8 | During the day , the centre of our field of view is clearer , but at night the peripheral view is better . |
| 9 | Studies of this kind show much promise in helping to understand the PE spectra of moderately complex inorganic and organometallic compounds , but at present the empirical assignment of these spectra is fraught with uncertainty . |
| 10 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |
| 11 | It is possible that special introductory units should be produced to get teachers out of the C category ( TESTDRIVE goes some way towards this ) , but at present the CDL teacher is a challenge that every unit must face . |
| 12 | The overt intrusion of politics into the courtroom varies widely from one system to another , but at root the legal process is a major way in which the ‘ who gets what ’ choices are made in any society , however different the process by which these choices are made appears to be . |
| 13 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 14 | While at school the following day there was a general rumour being passed around , this was that all pupils were going to be sent home . |