Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 2 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |
| 3 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 4 | This implies that at least 53% of lone mothers would be classified as unoccupied ; they would have been regarded as economically inactive at the census , and at death registration the instructions to registrars would preclude the recording of any occupational information . |
| 5 | Though clearly unhappy at the responsibility , the vaquero nodded his understanding . |
| 6 | Moreover , it was seen as too generous at a time when those parties had become more extreme . |
| 7 | They were also out of sympathy with the Protestant Germans who , though faintly alarmed at the poverty of the Polish peasantry , seemed unable to realise what part they themselves might have played in creating and maintaining these conditions . |