Example sentences of "[subord] at [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
2 | This means that you should plan to start work on a big system early in the day and keep at it until at least a complete section of the warren has been dealt with . |
3 | Basically , Mr Porceddu intends to jail every troublemaker in sight — a minimum of two days for offensive drunkenness , automatic detention until at least the first round is over for anything more serious . |
4 | The wet spell has been replaced by a cold , dry front which will last until at least the New Year . |
5 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
6 | Norman Lamont will stay until at least the next Budget in March to have the chance to take credit for next year 's expected economic recovery . |
7 | A single node will recognise something if at least a certain number of its inputs are on , so it is basically a counting device . |
8 | The next stop is to try and determine the best arrangement of the components on the board , and it often helps if at least the major parts ( large transformers , relays etc. ) are to hand so that the designer can visualise the arrangement of the components . |
9 | I decided not to protest , because at least the whole Report would be published , and teachers would be able to read the total rationale . |
10 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
11 | ABOVE : Lodgemore Mill has been in use since at least the 12th century and is still in use for cloth manufacture . |
12 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
13 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
14 | The little harbour of refuge has existed since at least the fourteenth century , and the house , first mentioned a century later , was a place of shelter for sailors caught by the sudden tempest so typical of the Fohn south wind in these parts , but in more recent times often called the ferry house . |
15 | Dolphins have been hunted in Japanese coastal waters since at least the seventeenth century , when drive fisheries were first reported . |
16 | He seemed , indeed , to have become much more decisive altogether , for at exactly the same time as he signed the rescript , he created a new governmental body under his own chairmanship , the Council of Ministers , whose purpose was apparently to strengthen his grip on the central administration . |
17 | Yet folk-dance is regularly presented , in certain kinds of exhibition and performance , as at least a simple kind of art . |
18 | The Justice Model 's philosophy consequently relied heavily on retribution as at least a partial justification for punishment . |
19 | They are worth bearing in mind as at least a partial explanation of some aspects of credit use , so as to avoid the risk of misinterpreting those aspects as a purely a matter of individual consumer choice . |
20 | And while Roosevelt was to some extent restrained by the State Department and , even more , after the US had recognized de Gaulle 's government in October , 1944 , by considerations of reconstituting France as at least a European power , there was , on the operational level , a situation developing in southern China , in which the US was involved , which would affect the fortunes of the Vietnamese revolutionaries , their appearance , their standing with other Vietnamese patriots , and their ability to influence future events . |
21 | I was quite glad to have it … sending a copy of my book to be signed , and saying he would like to have it back quickly as at least a dozen people were waiting to borrow it … . |
22 | Such a course is often open to the construction that nuclear weapons may be developed at some later stage , as at least a secondary objective . |
23 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |