Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other areas where similar changes occurred at a slightly later date , the rise of mass material culture and retailing was the subject of some incisive commentary . |
| 2 | Four fires in a week occurred at an especially sensitive time of year . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , Nelson recalls that his introduction to Berlioz came at a comparatively advanced age . |
| 4 | The affair happened at the most inopportune moment . |
| 5 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 6 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |
| 7 | Matthew Calbraith Perry , with his minuscule armada of two frigates and two sailing vessels , arrived at the heavily fortified pod of Uraga — at the very mouth of Tokyo Bay — on 8 July 1853 . |
| 8 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 9 | There are normally two volumes on display in the Long Room , one opened at a completely illuminated page and the other showing pages of text . |
| 10 | Experimentation with heroin for interviewees in the hidden sector , then , began at a much earlier stage , after an average of six months of recreational drug use instead of 17 months . |
| 11 | But the development of the idea of a ‘ nation ’ and the formation of nation states in Europe began at a much earlier time , and in order to understand the vigour of later nationalist movements in Europe and elsewhere we need to look more closely at that historical process . |
| 12 | Daphne flitted from party to party while I walked at a slightly faster pace from lecture hall to lecture hall , our two paths rarely crossing . |
| 13 | I apparently walked at an unusually early age but was slow learning to speak . |
| 14 | Lennon followed at a more leisurely pace , his weapon concealed once more . |
| 15 | And then , I knocked at the very weak leg . |
| 16 | Mrs Purry generally turns up trumps , ’ he added , surprised at the rather strange effect Penelope seemed to be having on his conversation . |
| 17 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 18 | Similar quotations were to be found in all the other Christmas and New Year music rags , all of which hinted at an unusually relaxed atmosphere within the band . |
| 19 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 20 | CLO patients who smoked started at a slightly later age ( median 20 , range 12–38 ) than patients with severe reflux oesophagitis ( median 18 , range 10–28 ) , and adenocarcinoma patients ( median 18 , range 14–25 ) ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 21 | Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week . |
| 22 | Travel went at a very slow pace . |
| 23 | The volume is priced at $48 ( available from the University of Chicago Press ) and is dedicated to the memory of Guy Bauman , associate curator in the Met 's department of European paintings , who recently died at a sadly early age . |
| 24 | In 1988 , Caroline Walker — the highly respected nutritionist and health writer — died at the tragically young age of 38 . |
| 25 | WINDHOEK in South Africa , where John Muafangejo died at the tragically early age of 44 in 1987 , rings an immediate bell . |
| 26 | March 1853 and he died at the very early age of thirty-seven , on 29th . |
| 27 | ‘ You improved at a very disturbing rate , cariad ! ’ |
| 28 | Relations with China improved at a less dramatic pace , but in October 1990 , after a South Korean team had participated in the Asian Games in Beijing , the two countries signed an unprecedented trade agreement , under which trade offices would be established in each country which would perform limited consular functions and would provide the basis for the eventual normalization of diplomatic relations [ see p. 37779 ] . |
| 29 | He stared at the serenely impassioned garden made out of a whirl of yellow brushstrokes , a viridian impasto , a dense mass of furiously feathered lines of blue-green , isolated black pot hooks , the painfully clear orange-red spattering . |
| 30 | After averaging just 0.6% per annum through the 1970s , total factor productivity grew at a much faster rate of 1.6% per annum during the 1980s . |