Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of the 1960s the boundaries of what counted as " English " began to expand as more interdisciplinary and joint programmes of study were offered , especially at the new universities and later at the polytechnics . |
| 2 | The horrific murders and woundings of the past week are an example of sheer terror — aimed not only at the Catholic community but at the prison authorities . |
| 3 | But Smith said bluntly : ‘ The League race is only at the half-way stage and there is still a long way to go . ’ |
| 4 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 5 | If there is still a sizeable shortage , then further assistance is given , though not necessarily at the same rates and maturities as earlier . |
| 6 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 7 | The current criterion for alert is two readings of more than three times normal background , either successively at the same site or simultaneously at two adjacent sites . |
| 8 | Only 3 departments grant travelling expenses , and only 2 departments grant subsistence allowances , to employees who voluntarily work overtime at the contractual workplace and receive payment therefor . |
| 9 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 10 | Thus , if a trustee of a family trust or a nominee or bare trustee or even an agent receives rent there can be a liability to income tax on him ( normally just at the basic rate but sometimes at the additional rate ) . |
| 11 | Thus , if the class of possible histories includes spaces with singularities , these singularities could occur anywhere , not just at the big bang and in collapsing stars . |
| 12 | The entrance is generally at the western end and , opposite on the other side , is an apse where the altar is housed in the sanctuary . |
| 13 | Should they be making low-budget films pitched largely at the local market and emphasizing their Britishness , as the critics demand , or big films on the Hollywood model for the world ? |
| 14 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 15 | At a seated dinner the speakers are usually at the top table and the microphone is nearby and can be handed to each speaker . |
| 16 | Her songs are still at the rough-and-ready stage but Harvey 's power comes from her ability to stare men and women right in the eye . |
| 17 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 18 | This programme , which is still at the experimental stage and therefore subject to adjustment in the light of experience , is intended to supplement and not to replace the close personal supervision which graduate students are entitled to expect . |
| 19 | She smiled dazzlingly at the little reporter and hoped that she would be referred to as ‘ charming ’ . |
| 20 | Disquiet among supporters of the regime was to be found not only in the St Petersburg ministries but also at the imperial court and in the provinces . |
| 21 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 22 | There were screens around her bed , and beside it sat the young Sub-lieutenant , almost as motionless as the form under the sheets , staring earnestly at the bandaged head and the small white face . |
| 23 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 24 | Under Khrushchev , however , there was a reassessment , and Soviet policy from this time onwards began to seek links of all kinds with the developing nations both at the political level and through trade , investment , arms sales , the training of students and so forth . |
| 25 | Oates ( 1985 ) , among others , offers some counter-arguments and finds the empirical evidence lacking both at the international level and in the state-local sectors in the USA . |
| 26 | Finance director Klaus Ruetschi said financial controls and auditing would be strengthened both at the Swiss headquarters and plants abroad . |
| 27 | both at the primary level and the secondary level , so what 's coming across is not just er the fact that perhaps Burns was a womanizer , but also as a nationalist and an internationalist |
| 28 | It should be added that Freud explicitly admitted that religious phenomena , both at the individual level and at the societal level , are overdetermined , so other factors , such as political and economic changes , could also affect people 's attitudes to religion . |
| 29 | The result is the present multiplicity of bodies producing confusion both at the administrative level and on the part of the electorate , who are left wondering where and by whom decisions are actually taken . |
| 30 | The pair discussed a book found lying in the dining-room , the works of Sir George Mackenzie , a predecessor of Boswell both at the Scottish Bar and in literature . |