Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 2 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 3 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 4 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 5 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 6 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 7 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 8 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 9 | Well , my interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 10 | My interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the century the bourgeoisie discovered at least a temporary formula for combining getting and spending , cushioned by the acquisitions of the past . |
| 12 | Fascinating in the way it hinted at both a deep sensuality and fastidious restraint , his mouth twisted . |
| 13 | Cruzate 's more pessimistic view was less well received that Penzias ' more technically exciting world , but represented at least a small dose of reality into some technical ivory towers . |
| 14 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 15 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 16 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 17 | It was Vico , in his New Science ( 1725–44 ) , who gave at once a new confidence and a particular direction to social thought , in his argument that ‘ the world of civil society has certainly been made by men ’ and that this ‘ since men had made it they could hope to know ’ . |
| 18 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 19 | I would want someone that was on my wavelength , roughly my age , preferably a supporter , and I would n't sign anything until I had at least a serious gentleman 's agreement that nothing could be issued without the artist 's agreement . |
| 20 | The famously awful Labour manifesto of 1983 had at least a certain integrity . |
| 21 | Two — Parkin 's wife and Jim Lancaster — had both opportunity and motive to murder Nicola while the third , Jane Pargeter , had at least a conceivable motive . |
| 22 | After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status . |
| 23 | For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material . |
| 24 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 25 | And while investment stopped growing , it remained at quite a high level . |