Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , religion mattered very much at a national level . |
| 2 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 3 | The hole cards for what proved to be a $2 million pot looked pretty small at the time : for Dastmalchi , for Jacobs . |
| 4 | But then , in the early '70s , Bristol was very raffish : the port connection made it a terribly druggy city , which to a student seemed very exciting at the time . ’ |
| 5 | The new war led in turn to a breach with France , and during 1740 the British government became seriously alarmed at the simultaneous assembling of a French fleet at Brest and a Spanish one at Ferrol [ or El Ferrol ] , Spain 's chief Atlantic base , 12 miles [ 21 km ] north-east of Corunna . |
| 6 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 7 | One female patient diagnosed as coeliac at the age of 65 years , was noted to be ‘ a sickly child with short stature ’ . |
| 8 | The observation that there was spontaneous electrical activity at the surface of the cortex seemed relatively insignificant at the time , but it was the discovery of the electro-encephalogram . |