Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , it has been our experience in the past that the most specialised work carried out at the Atomic Weapons Establishment leads scientists into a cul-de-sac of research that has little , or no , relevance to science as practised in civilian life … |
| 2 | But how could he rest with so much activity going on at UNACO headquarters ? |
| 3 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 4 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 5 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 6 | Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ? |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | Instead , a really effective manager works hard at becoming dispensable , before moving on to more important roles and tasks . |
| 9 | Neither had she , Maggie thought , feeling she could have stood there all day gawping up at it . |
| 10 | It all started early this morning , when a rather anxious mum called in at the office . |
| 11 | However some water got in at the front . |
| 12 | They do n't want a completely unknown counsellor to come in at this time . |
| 13 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 14 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 15 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 16 | His very own face frowned back at him doubtfully as if a homunculus was imprisoned in the card , a mute model of himself . |
| 17 | She 's a very wired missile aimed clearly at strategic targets . |