Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH MILLIONS of spotty young upstarts being so alarmingly eager to please at the moment , I guess that the slightly askew likes of Strangelove should be welcomed with open charms . |
| 2 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
| 3 | She was still sufficiently girlish to blush at the formula compliment . |
| 4 | All of these are still very cumbersome to use at the present stage of development but there is no doubt that they will improve . |
| 5 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 6 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 7 | A fifteen-year-old girl having her first baby is twice as likely to live at the poverty level than a nineteen-year-old first-time mother . |