Example sentences of "[vb pp] at such [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Caught at such a weak moment , the client could not help feeling the situation was urgent , and was often more susceptible to persuasion .
2 Try to keep the fried foods to a minimum , though unlike Western-style frying , it 's done at such a high temperature and so quickly that little fat actually penetrates the food .
3 Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour .
4 This can be so easily set down ; indeed , written at such a general level as they are here , these statements become almost obvious .
5 Robinson was surprised and a little alarmed at such an untypical gesture .
6 Electronic calculators can be produced at such a low cost that manufacturers of slide rules and of electro-mechanical calculators have completely lost their markets .
7 A spokeswoman for the band , whose hits include Love Cats and The Walk , said it is the first time The Cure will have played at such an intimate venue for almost ten years .
8 Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance .
9 She had hoped and expected to find the Garden Tower all but deserted at such a late hour , with the two guards half asleep in the guardchamber on the ground floor .
10 During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age .
11 Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle .
12 But wage negotiations are very rarely conducted at such a high level of aggregation : wage bargaining is a fragmented , decentralized process .
13 The big question is whether it 's export offensive can be maintained at such a high level .
14 Now , if the depression has been preceded by a particularly deep-going crisis , equilibrium may be established at such a low level of activity that the volume of fixed capital currently being produced may well be considerably smaller than that which would allow for the time-proportional replacement of fixed capital at the previous average rate .
15 Van den Boogaard argued that in entering Anglo-Norman , fabliaux underwent a radical transformation because they were aimed at such an isolated audience ; an audience isolated from the full French literary frame of reference that a truly French audience would have had .
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