Example sentences of "write at the [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Gaylord Bourne , in his masterly series Spain in America , written at the beginning of this century , offers a view with which few would take issue : |
| 2 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 3 | For many years little notice was taken of Wordsworth 's writings before 1798 , but even the School Exercise written at the age of fourteen ( Poetical Works , i , 259–61 ) is useful as an illustration of the faults of eighteenth-century style ; it is written in heroic couplets , in imitation of the work of Alexander Pope , and contains an excessive use of personification : |
| 4 | To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 . |
| 5 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 6 | In his preface to the book , written at the close of 1871 , he signified , albeit in flamboyantly veiled language , that this essay was indeed the effective starting point . |
| 7 | In fact , this crisis directly entered the form , as a crisis of the principles underlying the formation , in Godwin 's two ( radically different endings to Things as They Are , of which the latter , written at the time of greatest danger , marks the transition to a new and more subjective form . |
| 8 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |