Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 2 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 3 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 4 | Twelve of the big entry of 40 cue off at 11am in the preliminary round as follows : Steve Blundell ( Hindley ) v David Pye ( Prescot ) ; John Hughes ( Widnes ) v Peter Sheehan ( Widnes ) ; Paul Mather ( Wigan ) v 15 year old Phil Johnson ( Widnes ) , Arthur Johnson ( Widnes ) v Will Jerram ( Southport ) ; Nigel Warren ( Liverpool ) v Denis Marr ( Liverpool ) and Brendan Carroll Birkenhead ) v Trevor Gent ( Widnes ) . |
| 5 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 6 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 7 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 8 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 9 | Soviet initiatives for the Mediterranean in the guise of denuclearisation or the creation of zones of peace date back at least to the Soviet ‘ Draft Declaration on Non-Intervention in the Middle East ’ presented in February 1957 . |
| 10 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 11 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 12 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 13 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 14 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |