Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , there is no requirement that any evidence than that which grounded the original ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ should actually exist — and we have already seen that this formula is sometimes rather loosely interpreted at the arrest stage . |
| 2 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 3 | Such a condition leads to a degraded cliff , one that is principally the product of subaerial erosion and only locally sharpened at the base by marine erosion . |
| 4 | The committee of inquiry , composed of individuals with impressive antiracist credentials — Ian Macdonald , Gus John , Reena Bhavnani , Lily Khan — delivered a strong and , for some , an astonishing condemnation of the antiracist policies apparently vigorously pursued at the school , castigating them as doctrinaire , divisive , ineffectual and counterproductive . |
| 5 | He has enlisted Government help and interest in the RCA ; he has raised money for the renovations so badly needed at the college , and for building additional accommodation nearby for students . |
| 6 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 7 | Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally . |
| 8 | Harrods , Boots and many large department stores offer free make-up consultations so just ask at the counter . |
| 9 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 10 | So always look at the front of the pack first to choose the right SPF . |
| 11 | But by then she was so inwardly tense at the deception which through love and loyalty she had to perform that she barely noticed the grand buildings as she drove up out of the valley to where the town ended and a tarmacked road through woodland began . |
| 12 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 13 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 14 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 15 | So please stick at the programme until tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | In fact , anything of a business , property or joint financial nature is so well starred at the end of this month — only the most disillusioned Aries individual could fail to see that what lies ahead is the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 17 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |
| 18 | The cheque book , so conveniently left at the scene of the crime , could be interpreted as a genuine slip-up on his part . |
| 19 | At Ottawa , following a government report , the Gréber Commission , which concluded that stations and railway lines were unsightly in Canadian cities , the Beaux-Arts station , so superbly situated at the base of Parliament Hill , was abandoned and a new station like an airport was built on the edge of the city . |
| 20 | He worked at a pharmaceutical firm processing chlorthalidone and nifedipine , but 5 days ago had been moved to the micronisation of glibenclamide , only recently introduced at the firm . |
| 21 | And since phonemic constraints across word boundaries often no longer successfully apply at the mid-class level , the total number of ways of parsing a given mid-class string into words is likely to increase considerably , despite the fact that the lexicon remains highly discriminable when represented in mid-classes . |
| 22 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 23 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 24 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 25 | If we just quickly look at the role of the project coordinator . |
| 26 | I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides . |
| 27 | We could just about race at the moment , ’ said clerk of the course Nick Cheyne . |
| 28 | But the paying customers are just about outnumbered at the moment by a very big posse of travelling Italian journalists just to my left and all pretty excitable by our normal quiet English standards . |
| 29 | He scarcely even looked at the price of his Magimix before grabbing it and racing to the cash tills . |
| 30 | And she did n't , she scarcely even looked at the label . |