Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music .
2 For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease .
3 The histology of the removed bladder showed widespread invasive bladder tumour , not only across the base of the bladder obstructing both ureters but also at other sites in the bladder as well .
4 One of the crucial issues , to which the creation of ad hoc agencies in the United States is a response , is the problem , at all levels but particularly at local level , of ‘ overlapping governments ’ .
5 Graphite conducts electricity in the plane of the layers but not at right angles to them .
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