Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be fair , this kind of criticism can be levelled at just about every new machine , regardless of price . |
| 2 | His departure for Australia came at just about the right time . |
| 3 | Some burning sun , black clouds , rain and wind were the backdrop to another highly agreeable fortnight in Paris at just about the perfect time of year . |
| 4 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 5 | Another group , the crustaceans , appeared at just about the same time . |
| 6 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
| 7 | Theseus is shown again at just about the same time , lifting Antiope into his chariot , an over life-size group from a pediment ( fig. 65 ) . |
| 8 | Told me that at just about the same age , he did the same thing to try and impress the then girl in in the office . |
| 9 | She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day . |
| 10 | At about 1pm a single shot was fired from a rifle , hitting the gunman in the upper neck and face . |
| 11 | We waved them off at about 8.45am the following morning , after having a thoroughly enjoyable weekend . |
| 12 | Whilst the cost of unemployment in terms of human misery and risk of social unrest must be considerable , the attempt to seek a remedy must not be looked at as merely a social gesture . |
| 13 | In 1982 , British wave power studies using the " Salter 's duck " energy device mistakenly estimated the cost of electricity generation at around twice the likely figure . |
| 14 | However , since access to lexical items appears to be at least partly an automatic process in which words are accessed as a result of unplanned factors ( such as prior mention by the present speaker or an earlier speaker ) , it seems plausible to suggest that the production system should be able to adapt in order to incorporate automatically accessed lexical items into current constituents . |
| 15 | In another way , Ulysses is at least partly an autotelic novel , its hugely extended parodies raising as much interest in its own means of representation — and in the linguistic resources of fiction generally — as in anything which they may represent . |
| 16 | The concept of honour as it appears in the adventure stones of the late nineteenth century was at least partly an artificial code belonging to the ruling or leisure classes , requiring a dedicated loyalty towards women , family honour and masculine comradeship which owed little to common sense or practicality . |
| 17 | In the seventeenth century at least both the Dutch republic and Sweden could claim to rank as great powers in their own right . |
| 18 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 19 | But if ‘ transcendence ’ means not that God is physically distant from the world , but that none of the characteristics of finite human life , like location , duration and change , applies to Him , then it is at least not an obvious contradiction to call Him both ‘ transcendent ’ and ‘ immanent ’ . |
| 20 | At least not an active part . ’ |
| 21 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 22 | ‘ Brain or no brain , I 'd rather you did n't go out alone , at least not the first time , please . ’ |
| 23 | Standard liver function tests revealed serum alkaline phosphatase concentrations at least twice the upper limit of normal in 13 subjects , but a raised serum bilirubin in only three . |
| 24 | Using an 8-bit sound sampler board with Atari , Archimedes or Amiga computers for sound analysis in physics and biology requires a sample rate of at least twice the highest signal frequency — around 20kHz . |
| 25 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 26 | It 's quite a , it seems at least quite a pleasant hospital . |
| 27 | The market now stands at almost exactly the same level as when Chancellor Norman Lamont stood up and delivered his Budget speech one month ago . |
| 28 | The adults emerge at almost exactly the same moment , having spent 13 ( or 17 ) years cloistered underground . |
| 29 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu . |