Example sentences of "[conj] at the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Each genre established you as ‘ commander ’ at a particular level — for example as total military supremo controlling grand strategy , or at regimental level in charge of smaller units such as squads or platoons , or at the lowest level actually controlling individual tanks or airplanes .
2 Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter .
3 Provision is made for the election of members of a new divisional board , either at the meeting at which it was determined that a new division should be established or at the first meeting thereafter .
4 One or two journalists were told , in no uncertain terms , that they were not welcome outside the extravagantly converted family home — ‘ The Ponderosa ’ as it is known locally — or at the windswept graveside where Arthur Thompson was buried .
5 For example a second-order function , , may be defined so that the probability that the velocity at one point lies between u 1 and u 1 + du 1 and that at the other point simultaneously lies between u 2 and u 2 + du 2 is .
6 There is a law of scholarship which stipulates that at the precise moment when the production of a book has reached the stage where no changes are possible , new source material appears .
7 Sales service teams in the UK and Ireland ensure that our on-trade draught equipment is operating efficiently and at the correct temperature so that the products can be served in the very best condition .
8 He looked at Kraal , who called out in loss and anger , and at the other eagles up and down the Cages , as if somewhere there there might be some help .
9 In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption .
10 It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit .
11 Its goals of supporting advanced features like multi-processing and security while remaining very portable and scalable and at the same time backwards compatible with MS-DOS and 3.1 ‘ will inflict costs in reliability and efficiency while it experiences its share of growing pains . ’
12 It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it .
13 In a week 's time you will find how easy it is to be perfectly objective with your child and at the same time kindly .
14 The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities .
15 It was n't very good , she knew that , she did n't seem able to capture the vulnerable , and at the same time intensely alert , look of their eyes and ears .
16 Not all the clergy and all the religious orders have been actively engaged in the pursuit of this ideal , but one or two orders have been ; for example , the Christian Brothers are devoted to the ideals of a Christian and catholic education , and supporters of the concept of a nation dedicated to God and at the same time distinctly Irish .
17 Contemporary fascist parties overtly campaign on anti-immigrant platforms , appealing to racist sentiments to oppose the latest wave of ‘ foreign ’ arrivals , and at the same time frequently preserve a deeply antisemitic view of the world .
18 Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society .
19 None of the authorities to which I have so far referred dealt with a situation in which a decision was made which directly affected one party , A , and at the same time indirectly affected a second party , B , so as to raise the question : is there any duty in the decision-making authority to be fair towards B ?
20 She could n't accept that Christ ’ s body could be present in the sacrament and at the same time physically in heaven at God 's right hand .
21 It was the young Middlesex batsman 's third successive Test duck ( Sri Lanka , Lord 's , ‘ 91 and Edgbaston this season ) , a grievous setback , and at the same time surely reassurance to the Pakistanis that , even with a sweep shot such as this , their appeals were being given due and fair consideration .
22 It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it .
23 Comrade Preobrazhensky , however , contrives to perform such a conjuring trick : he categorically insists on the ‘ plan ’ and other good things , and at the same time even more categorically insists on abstracting from the functions of state power in the sphere of the economy .
24 As she lay in the heat , she felt drowsy and at the same time tinglingly alive .
25 His manner of playing the piano has something so basically individual about it , and at the same time so masterly , that he may really be described as the perfect virtuoso . ’
26 To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game .
27 And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples .
28 It felt so safe and so right , and at the same time so electric , stirring her in ways that were becoming increasingly familiar , and increasingly delightful .
29 " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia .
30 American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market .
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