Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 2 | He scanned the empty horizon and frowned , and she quivered , suddenly afraid at the savage look in his eyes . |
| 3 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 4 | Coun. Keith Pudney , chairman of Guisborough Bypass Action Group , said members were highly delighted at the local authority 's decision . |
| 5 | In this way of analysis , the importance of changes in economic and social relations is retained — particularly at the level of the situation , where homologies , in the sense defined earlier , may be thought to operate — while relative autonomy for cultural and ideological elements is especially noticeable at the conjunctural level , for these elements may change at differing speeds , in differing ways . |
| 6 | He had ‘ no tie — so rude at a formal party like this , heavy dun trousers of a fashion the French might call ‘ eclat merdeaux ’ , smeared with darkening souvenirs of food and drink bound by a belt from the corpse of a dead guardsman . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's unusual for a girl to be so good at the technical stuff , ’ he went on . |
| 8 | He 's no match for you , and I wo n't have him abused for being so good at the one thing he does well . |
| 9 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 10 | This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference . |
| 11 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 12 | Everyone is extremely pleased at the scrupulous way in which inspection is being carried out in Iraq to reveal the scale of the investment in nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | The APU surveys confirm these findings with the added perspective that such differences are only apparent at the top attainment levels . |
| 14 | In contrast other bands within this large footprint are only apparent at the longest incubation times ( positions 69-73 ) . |
| 15 | But the spokesman confirmed that specialist neuro and thoracic care was only available at the Royal site . |
| 16 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 17 | But the East Germans , apparently furious at the latest development , accused West Germany of a ‘ gross breach of trust ’ . |
| 18 | AS SOME 3,000 East German would-be emigrants poured into West Germany 's embassy in Prague yesterday , the East Germans , apparently furious at the latest development , accused West Germany of ‘ gross breach of trust ’ , claiming that Bonn had promised to stop the flow . |
| 19 | By the current standards of research finance , this is a far-fetched , politically naive scheme , long on committee intricacies so beloved at the committee-bound Academy . |
| 20 | I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time . |
| 21 | Hofmann returned to Berlin , to the most prestigious chair of chemistry in Germany and thus in the world , in 1865 , somewhat disappointed at the slow development of chemistry in Britain . |
| 22 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 23 | The public had been most incensed at the relative simplicity with which the Royal Mail company had been relieved of their entrusted money . |
| 24 | Sir William Anstruther-Gray formally declared him the victor and his election was duly rubber-stamped at the ceremonial party meeting six days later . |
| 25 | As I walked between the walls my mind was already in the byre , just visible at the far end of the yard . |
| 26 | Inside the Dabs 386DX the processor is just visible at the bottom right of the case . |
| 27 | Besterman claimed that he was largely self-educated at the British Museum library and it is typical that his first separate publication should have been a bibliography of the well-known theosophist Annie Besant [ q.v. ] ( 1924 ) . |
| 28 | Spencer lifted his arms in a flamboyant gesture and Emily felt physically sick at the mere thought of marrying him . |
| 29 | Firstly , mid-classes are groups of phonemes which are easily confused at an acoustic-phonetic stage of processing : thus and are grouped into one mid-class , since [ m ] and [ n ] are are often nearly identical from an acoustic point of view . |
| 30 | Both forms of development are already evident at an evolutionary stage , and there , as in later more consciously social development , the analytically separable processes are usually in practice inextricable . |