Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
| 2 | Expectations are always exceedingly high and at the minute club football in Cavan is poor . ’ |
| 3 | When her kindergarten time was up , her parents engaged a modelling tutor to come in twice a week , and she was so good that at the age of 7 she was admitted to the Dover School of Art where she stayed until she was eighteen . |
| 4 | It will be less polluting but at the cost of native energy sources which will be left to rot underground . |
| 5 | It was so enjoyable that at the headwall I took a line up the steepest part , just so I could play about hanging from the holds . |
| 6 | I was so surprised that at the time I uttered no word . |
| 7 | ‘ Alone in a crowd ’ is never so intense as at the movies , and never so open to sudden dislocation . |
| 8 | Here the colour tones overall , are more subdued than at the Cornmarket auction , with a multitude of tweed or tan flat caps and Lincolnshire green ‘ wellies ’ , bodywarmers and anoraks . |
| 9 | ‘ We are still confident that at the end of the day we will find out who killed Mrs Shelley . ’ |
| 10 | The team looks more mature than at the start of the season . |
| 11 | People from the dance group also became more outgoing and at the end of the study had improved muscle strength and reduced blood pressure . |
| 12 | They were noticeably more outspoken than at the outset . |
| 13 | The officer 's undress headgear was a dark blue visored forage cap of ‘ pill-box ’ shape : ‘ … the diameter at the top slightly less than at the base , the height 3¼ inches all round ; … |
| 14 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 15 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 16 | We could argue , then , that recording comes at the culmination of one era as much as at the start of another , and that the blanket concepts of ‘ mass media ’ and ‘ mechanical reproduction ’ need opening up . |
| 17 | Is it really feasible that at the sort of level that 's being talked about , be it your level or the level being put forward by some of the objectors to the structure plan , the new settlement could actually hope to provide a good level of comparison shopping , for example ? |
| 18 | It seems particularly important that at the implementation phase the children are not simply left to get on with it . |
| 19 | Egyptian forces again proved militarily superior to the Turks ; the Turkish fleet went over to the enemy ; the Sultan died when hostilities were at their peak ; and an Egyptian march on Constantinople seemed even likelier than at the end of 1832 . |
| 20 | The practice is classed as having been professionally marginal because at the time of the research it was new to the town . |
| 21 | I found his personality irresistibly magnetic and at the end of his speech I joined the rest of the huge crowd in tumultuous cheering . |
| 22 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 23 | We are also gravely concerned because at the Lavenham parish meeting Mr Tony Webster of Atlas Aggregates categorically refused to give an assurance that in the future they would not apply to extend the mining operation to other parts of Cross Green Farm . |
| 24 | I first saw Genesis around 1973 and at the time knew their music very well . |
| 25 | It is almost incomprehensible that at the height of Cold War Fever ( and temperatures ran very high ) people like Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt sincerely believed people would be ‘ better dead than Red ’ as the slogan popularly put it . |
| 26 | But they were only relatively cheap because at the time I made that change musician union . |
| 27 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 28 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 29 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 30 | We all had a pleasant evening , and I was very impressed that at the end so many people came and said , ‘ How can we help the University ? ’ |